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Tourism on Kopaonik and Zlatibor mountains had started to develop decades ago, but at the beginning of the 21st century, mountain tourism started to develop rapidly and the number of tourists in the mountain regions of Serbia has significantly increased. Constant improvements of tourism offer and numerous tourist activities on the Kopaonik and Zlat...
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... traffic of Kopaonik has significantly changed in the last 15 years. Figure 1 shows a declining trend in a number of overnight stays of both domestic and for- eign tourists. That number has declined from 510.562 in 2002 to 233.912 overnight stays in 2010. ...
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... can be explained that Zlatibor is a mountain popular for recreation for those who want to spend their summer vacations on the mountain. Figures 9 and 10, show that the most overnight stays per tourist in Zlatibor are recorded in July -5.2. The lowest numbers, however, are recorded during autumn. ...
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... Błażejczyk et al. (2021a) used the weather suitability index (WSI) to assess the suitability of the climate for outdoor tourism and recreation at several European locations, including Zlatibor. When it comes to Kopaonik, if we analyze the scientific works in the field of bioclimatology, back in 1961, Vujević (1961) investigates the equivalent temperature (ET) and cooling power (CP), while the works on the topic of climate influence on the tourism sector are more numerous (Anđelković et al. 2016;Stojsavljević et al. 2016;Pecelj et al. 2018;Pavlović et al. 2020;Lukić et al. 2021, etc.). Based on the review of previous research, there is an evident lack of studies investigating the outdoor thermophysiological comfort in Kopaonik. ...
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Abstract
In recent years, mountain tourism has gradually increased its position among tourists´ preferences at international level. The main reason is the strong relationship that man develops with nature and precisely with the mountain, becoming a destination of great tourist influx. An adequate use of these tourist flows results in the development of a sustainable activity, capable of contributing to the improvement of economic conditions in these areas. The objective of this research is to identify and analyse the indexed scientific production on "mountain tourism" in the international databases Scopus and Web of Science, in order to analyse in depth the current state of this area of study. The work methodology focuses on a bibliometric analysis of the 134 items identified by searching the term "Mountain Tourism". Prior to this analysis, the level of coverage and overlap of the information in both databases was analysed. The results show that Scopus performs a greater coverage of scientific production. In addition, the research is in its exponential growth stage, most researchers are small producers, only 19 have between two and three publications and the European continent is the most prolific in research on mountain tourism. Finally, note that, despite its long coverage over time, more than 40 years, it is an emerging area of study and there are many research lines that must be studied further.
Key words: Mountain Tourism, Bibliometric, Scientific Production, databases.
