Aleksandra Terzić

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• Phd in Geosciencies (Tourism)
• Senior Research Associate at Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Cultural routes are gaining popularity as a means to preserve cultural heritage and boost tourism. The Sultans Trail, a cultural route stretching over 2,500 km from Vienna to Istanbul, showcases Ottoman heritage and symbolizes reconciliation, international cooperation, and cultural coexistence. This study aims to explore the potential for expanding...

The study investigates the growing phenomenon of second homes in rural Serbia and its implications for tourism development. By analyzing the geographical distribution of second homes and their relationship to the territorial capital, the study contributes to the understanding of rural tourism dynamics. The research identifies regions with high conc...

Globalization tendencies in harmonizing social norms and their impact on social values can lead to significant clashes between modernization and tradition. This dynamic is particularly evident in Russia, where certain social groups exhibit varying degrees of resistance to these changes, reflecting a broader societal tension. Russian society is deep...

Cultural heritage is an important part of the cultural identity of any nation. The care of cultural heritage includes the protection and preservation of the material heritage of the majority nation and the heritage of all other ethnic communities that have left their cultural traces in the area under consideration. The protection of cultural herita...

Cultural tourism routes are typically designed for specific groups of travelers, offering opportunities to explore remnants of the past, both tangible and intangible. North Macedonia boasts a diverse array of cultural relics dating back to the Ottoman period, including bazaars, bridges, hammams, bedestens, karavansarays, clock towers, mosques, and...

The recovery from the Second World War brought significant changes and the implementation of socialist ideology in Yugoslavia that went in parallel with the emancipation of women. This is particularly noticeable in the rise of women with university education and their enrolment in various occupations, such as construction engineering and architectu...

The main goal of this research is to highlight the specifics and tourist potential of Balkans cuisine from the perspective of the local population. This study examines whether Balkan cuisine's image is considered a multidimensional construct and whether there are differences in traditional cuisine perception in different Balkan countries, indicatin...

Examination of tourist behaviour during and after the crisis is of great importance for understanding and coping with the harmful effects of the crisis. The study aims to discover the impact of perceived risks, health status, and travel experience on proximal travel intentions during the Covid-19 outbreak. Perceived risks that coronavirus brought r...

This study aims to offer insights into a sounder understanding of tourist behavior and travel patterns by systematically identifying psychological manifestations reflected in the basic human value system in the pandemic-induced environment. A large random sample (49,519 respondents from 29 European countries), generated from the core module Round 9...

This article examines attitudes toward the development of a cultural route based on Ottoman heritage in Europe among university students from Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia, Croatia, and Hungary. The online survey results outline the basic preconditions and potential obstacles to the development of such a cultural route, with the lack of public...

The noticeable urgent need for the preservation of collective and cultural memory in Europe, coupled with a fear of loss of important aspects of heritage, indicates the importance of educating the youth who will become future policymakers in the field. Analyses of the survey conducted through this research show the current perspective of youth on t...

The history and cultural memory of hajduk's and uskok's movements in the Balkan territory are well-documented, and even became recognized as a part of tangible and intangible heritage through the Balkan region. The historical and cultural importance of those movements is mostly reflected in oral epic literature, toponomastics, and some local tradit...

Recent tourism research showed that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, various psychological aspects affected people’s decisions and travel behavior. Tourism has never experienced such a global collapse, fiercely supported by governmental decisions holding back all tourism-related activities. This research attempts to offer insights into a sounder unde...

The study examines how tourists perceive the security crisis in the MENA region and to what extent it affects their travel decision process. It is based on a survey conducted among Serbian young adult and younger middle-aged residents. The survey tracked the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents, their travel habits and a...

The chapter discusses the issues of the gradual transformation of low-density areas to spaces with predominant tourism function reflected in the expansion of second-homes. It attempts to identify a possible interrelation between the rural diversification process and the expansion of second-home tourism. For this purpose, a sample of 55 small villag...

Leisure services encompass a variety of initiatives and related to the planning, development, and operation of parks, trails, zoos, and many other recreational and athletic facilities. Together, they are responsible for millions of jobs around the world. But in order to ensure their long-term viability, leisure services need to be sustainable. And...

A crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic affected the whole world leaving long-lasting effects on almost every aspect of human lives. The aim of this study was to test how different effects of COVID-19, expressed through job insecurity, employees' health complaints occurred during isolation, risk-taking behavior at workplace and changes in the organiza...

The period of acquiring higher education represents one of the most challenging periods for students for creating bad eating habits. The aim of the research is to point out eating habits of students of University of Novi Sad, based on the sample of 108 respondents. The special emphasis was placed on the orientation towards regular and healthy nutri...

Rural tourism offers opportunity to local communities to oppose the process of rural abandonment. This study assesses the tourism potential of two almost depopulated villages in Serbia, Gostuša (Pirot) and Poganovo (Dimitrovgrad), and identifies their second-home tourism perspectives. They have similar geo-demographic characteristics, but different...

Organizational commitment is an employee’s positive attitude, psychological connection and employee identification with the organization. The analysis of the relevant literature found that there are different ways of defining and measuring organizational commitment. This research aims to find the level of organizational commitment in organizations...

Being the basic need of humans, but also an attractive element of the tourist offer, gastronomy is related to the attractiveness of a destination, and Balkan gastronomy is considered to be one of the most positive aspects of the tourist image of the region. This study aims to investigate the locals' perception of gastronomic specificity of 'Balkan...

This is a study about inter-ethnic marriages between the members of two antagonistic nations in the Western Balkans: Serbian and Albanian. The first part of the paper describes the geographical and socio-cultural framework of the research, along with presenting key historical factors that have contributed to the long-lasting antagonism between the...

The purpose of this study was to examine if human values sets indicating basic motivational aspects, shared by active sport participants, could be used for the creation of a specific market segmentation model. While the exploration of motivation scales and sport tourist typologies was vast, although limited to small samples, this research construct...

Sustainability of tourism destinations has become the main focus in planning and managing tourism development. Despite existing legislation and an institutional framework to safeguard balanced tourism growth, many destinations fail to properly address it. So far, studies are limited in exploring sustainable tourism impacts from a policy perspective...

This study supports previous discussions for introducing tourism as an alternative for small rural economies. The focus is put on an in-depth analysis of rural capital in several selected villages in Eastern Serbia and North Macedonia, which have well preserved natural environment, traditional ambience, local organic food and gastronomic dishes, tr...

The study examines the concept of resilient societies that are emerging recently by opening the question of social empowerment and willingness to cope with uncertainties. It presents a comprehensive review on the issue of real contribution of tourism based economies within rural communities. The study evaluates the basic preconditions for tourism r...

Rural areas in North Macedonia are rich in diverse natural and cultural preconditions favorable for practicing rural tourism. The paper summarizes the results of accomplished activities in the rural environment in the line of developing rural tourism in North Macedonia. The overview of activities and results is based on three parameters: (i) By fol...

The paper explores the factors for the development of several alternative forms of tourism in the rural environment of eight Bitola suburban villages (Capari, Dihovo, Kazani, Nizopole, Magarevo, Rotino and Trnovo are located less than one kilometer away of National Park “Pelister”, and the village of Malovista is in the area of Pelister National Pa...

There are different evaluation models and methods applied in tourism studies. More recently the evaluation models of tourism potentials and sustainable tourism assessment involved many different sets of indicators that have been developed and applied in practice. Still, there is no universal list of indicators capable of revealing neither tourism p...

The fact that Macedonia has unique and well-preserved natural resources, large number of traditional rural households and much supplementary potential, imposes great future challenges towards rural tourism development. Moreover, due to ever-growing interest of international market in rural lifestyle, rural tourism sounds like inevitable alternative...

The publication that is before the reader, entitled From the Notebooks of Jovan Cvijić – Selected Pages and Interpretations, is the result of cooperation between the Belgrade City Museum and the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA. It has been prepared with a deep awareness of the importance of Jovan Cvijić’s scientific research work and wit...

Туризам се види као просперитетна активност, производна алтернатива, која обезбеђује одређене економске и функционалне добити у смислу успоравања постојећих негативних процеса у руралним просторима. Када је у питању креирање атрактивне туристичке понуде руралних простора, долази до неизбежних промена у смислу адаптације и комодификације традиционал...

SAFETY OF TOURISTS AND VISITORS AT THE EVENTS IN URBAN AREAS Summary Tourism has become a global phenomenon and an important source of income for many countries and regions. In total, Travel & Tourism generated US$7.6 trillion (10.2% of global GDP) and 292 million jobs in 2016, equivalent to 1 in 10 jobs in the global economy. The sector accounted...

This paper presents the principles of the event classification and categorization, applied on the categorization of carnival celebrations in Serbia, but also included some traditional events in Serbia. Additionally the Carnival ,,Pročka” in Prilep (Macedonia) was also evaluated. In order to determine the profile of the target group of visitors for...

The article aims to indicate to the basic cultural meanings of carnival as well as to present the process of development of carnival events, by following the historical development of some contemporary forms of carnival. Moreover, the tourist function of carnival is shown, as it is becoming a dominant issue, even overcoming its social and cultural...

Бројне иницијативe за заједничку сарадњу на унапређењу како природне срединe, на заштити културног наслеђа и промоцији туристичког развоја Баната у међународном контексту су евидентне. Обзиром да је Банат географски и историјски регион који припада трима државама, Румунији, Србији и Мађарској, вековима је представљао простор судара и сарадње различ...

More attractive to tourists will be those destinations, that is, countries, regions and places that off er the highest value for the invested money or the ones that off er distinctiveness and uniqueness that can not be substituted by an alternative destination. The aim of the paper is to point out to the possibilities, significance and synergy of c...

Težište članka je postavljeno na pitanju: da li Narodni muzej Valjevo svojim radom ekonomski doprinosi razvoju svoga okruženja. Da bi se odgovorilo na to pitanje u dva navrata, 2013. i 2017. godine su obavaljena kompleksna istraživanja kojima su analizirani struktura posete muzeju, anketirani predstavnici grupa koje u muzej dolaze organizovano i in...

Historic towns and their fortresses represent attractive tourist destinations. Cultural tourism in such areas records constant growth, especially when fortresses are located within large urban centers. Fortresses, as important historical sites, are often a subject to various urban plans and projects, aiming at their physical improvement, proper use...

This study gives an insight into the geographical distribution of the customary practices and the inter-cultural exchange between the societies that live in the Balkans. It focuses on finding the similarities and differences in some traditional customs of different nations practiced on St. George’s Day. By examining and comparing practices of Ortho...

development of tourism in rural areas can contribute to the strengthening of economy and economic empowerment of the villages. Rural tourism in Serbia has been developing since the 1970s. Today, many forms of accommodation and additional activities are being offered to tourists, and the population discovers additional sources of income in otherwise...

International thematic collection made by Milka Bubalo Živković, Tatjana Pivac, Ivana Blešić, Bojan Đerčan, Milica Solarević, Sanja Božić, Rastislav Stojsavljević, Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Mary E. Eddy-U, Margareta Gregurović, Tomislav Tadić, Zlatan Delić, Silviu Costachie

Orientation to learning and innovation are the basis of organisational success. Innovation in the organisation implies a continuous transformation of knowledge and ideas into new products, services, processes and systems in order to provide benefits for the stakeholders. A theoretical foundation and surveys are used in the paper to examine the impa...

This study assessed conceptual terms of farm-stay tourism through connection with the criteria of quality of services. Based on best practices and experiences from the European countries, the European Federation of Rural Tourism (EuroGites) has established common quality assessment standards for accommodation units in rural areas. Criteria of estab...

Књига Из бележница Јована Цвијића – прикази и тумачења настала је као резултат сарадње Музеја града Београда и Географског института „Јован Цвијић“ САНУ. Ова публикација приређена је са дубоком свешћу о значају научно-истраживачког рада Јована Цвијића и у уверењу да се књигом, концепцијски домишљеном, стручно написаном и брижљиво уређеном, непознат...

In the early 21st century, tourist cruises along the Danube River (Corridor 7) experience significant expansion. The main task of cruise companies is the satisfaction of guests, which primarily depends on employee satisfaction affected by numerous organizational factors, including the relationship between the employee and the manager as one of the...

Cultural routes may become interesting tourist destinations because of their thematic and traveling experience, making connections to renown places, events and personalities. The process of forming cultural routes as tourist products is considered a new principle of protection, revitalization, use and presentation of cultural heritage. Europe in pa...

The article is consisted of several chapters, disscussing the process of migration flows in northern parts of the newly established state of Yugoslavia after the Second World War. It gives historical outlook to the happenings in Vojvodina region considering migration flows of diferent ethnicities in Vojvodina, as well as two great colonization flow...

Gastronomic events have been an important part of the tourist offer of some state. They, through the culinary techniques and gastronomic specialties, represent the tradition, folklore and customary practices, as well as economic potential. They can become an independent tourist attraction, thematic route, but also the element of the intangible cult...

During the process of choosing the first group of intangible cultural heritage assets as a part of national database of National committee and Center for intangible cultural heritage, in 2012 to national register as an element of intangible cultural heritage entered the cultural event „Vuk’s parliament“ (Tršić). Even though, at the first sight, the...

The folk artistry of Serbia is rich in spiritual values tied to customs, celebrations, music, song, dance, games, stories and legends, and this kind of cultural heritage is presented through numerous festivals, events and tourist manifestations. In 2012, the network for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage was formed, comprised of the N...

The article is the part of research including social - demographic structure and motivations of visitors of tourist events in Serbia. The main goal is to identify the characteristics and motivations of visitors, as well as their satisfaction with the event, using a survey method. The research was focused on a tourist event “Nušićijada” in town of I...

Saint George is one of the most popular Christian saints throughout the world. There are numerous and quite diverse customs related to his celebrations. However, the most interesting and widespread customs integrated, largely into the national identification, are those traditionally practised among some of the Balkan nations. This research gives in...

Saint George is one of the most popular Christian saints throughout the world. There are numerous and quite diverse customs related to his celebrations. However, the most interesting and wide-spread customs integrated, largely into the national identification, are those traditionally practised among some of the Balkan nations. This research gives i...

One of the initial stages of the tourist development is the assessment of the elements or the entire area in order to identify priorities that will continue to be presented and economically valorised through specific measures and activities. This is possible to achieve by using different models of evaluation with a tendency to more qualitative char...

The first records of tourist travelling in the territory of Serbia date from the 19th century, and the first destinations mentioned were the spas of Sokobanja, Bukovička Banja and Vrnjačka Banja, as well as the Vršac Mountains, Mount Tara and others. In international scholarly literature, tourism was first mentioned as a geographical scientific dis...

PROBLEMS IN REVITALIZATION OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM SPATIAL PLANNING IN SERBIA – SPICER'S CASTLE, BEOČIN Summary: Facilities with a characteristic architectonical values, spatial culturalhistoric complexes, memorials and other cultural monuments, due to their cultural, artistic, historical and architectural significance, represent a ve...

Као елемент нематеријалног културног наслеђа на листи Центра за нематеријално културно наслеђе, од 2012. гоодине, налази се и манифестација „Вуков сабор“ (Тршић). Иако се на први поглед може поставити питање откуд једна културна манифестација да буде део нематеријалног наслеђа. Вуков сабор спада међу најстарије културне манифестације у Србији и има...

Even though Serbia is especially rich in intangible cultural heritage and folklore, there is still no established register of intangible cultural assets in Serbia that could evaluate particular elements of folk heritage. The ethnographic heritage of Serbia is rich in spiritual values related to customs, celebrations, music, song, dance, stories and...

Cultural routes can become interesting tourist destinations because of their connections to renown places, events and personalities. The process of forming cultural routes as tourist products is considered a new principle of protection, revitalization, use and presentation of cultural heritage. In Serbia, the concept of cultural routes is in its de...

Starting from the theoretical approach, considering the idea of natural disasters and its individual elements, the emphasis is placed on consideration of natural disasters defined by the Spatial Plan of the Republic of Serbia as the highest planning document. The Regional Spatial Plano of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and Spatial plan of Beočin...

The territory of Beočin municipality covers north part of Fruška gora in am area between mountain Fruška gora and The Danube river. According to its, that municipality is unique on observed area because the most part of it is covers the area of National Park ‘’ Fruška gora'’ it also, presents an area with the highest concentration of weekend settle...

The paper presents the status and potential development of agritourism in Serbia and in some countries of the European Union. The authors have analyzed the villages where the agritourism is the most developed, providing an overview of the number of registered agritourism units and the number of beds in four tourist clusters (91 municipalities) in S...

Presented as a part of intangible cultural heritage, Serbian national folklore is rich in spiritual and worldly values and it is transposed in customs, celebrations, music, songs, dances, stories and legends. As a part of tourist offer, these elements are presented in numerous festivals and tourist events. In the year 2012, the Network on the Safeg...

This paper presents a regionalization of the Mediterranean France with regard to tourism, as well as basic economic sectors present in the region. The study included three administrative regions of this part of France: Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur, Languedoc - Roussillon and the Island of Corsica, where the travel industry is defined as dominant....

This work is focused on the Bačka territory, historically-geographical region located in the northern part of Serbia. It covers the period from 11 April 1941., when, in The Second World War, Hungarian army entered the territory of Kingdom of Yugoslavia with the goal of conquering, creating the government and incorporation of Bačka to the Hungarian...

Destinations and cultural resources that are used and respected by both residents and tour-ists are the ultimate goal of sustainable tourism development. The sustainable tourism as an emerging paradigm seems to enhance the exist-ing conceptual frameworks on tourism planning and development by making the residents its focal point. In that sense, opi...

The presentation of cultural heritage through cultural routes and itineraries is in line with the preferences of the Strategy of the tourism development in the Republic of Serbia. Cultural (thematic) routes are presented as the priority axis of the national strategy of tourism development. They are represented in a long list of proposed, preliminar...

In tourism trends on global level became obvious the popularity of cultural tourism. There is a growing interest and connection between natural and cultural heritage with a living societies, with the growing concern for nature and heritage preservation. Importance of tourism and the role of cultural tourism are becoming of strategic importance in g...

In tourism trends on global level became obvious the popularity of cultural tourism. There is a growing interest and connection between natural and cultural heritage with a living societies, with the growing concern for nature and heritage preservation. Importance of tourism and the role of cultural tourism are becoming of strategic importance...

Abstract In this paper tourist events organized in the area of Serbian Banat are studied. They represent the base for initial development of tourism, but also some other economic activities in this underdeveloped region. Those events are mostly based on tradition, folklore and customs (ethnographic by type) and agricultural production (fairs, exhib...

Tourismological valorization of intangible cultural heritage of Serbia According to the Hilary du Cros method The folk artistry of Serbia is rich in spiritual values tied to customs, celebrations, music, song, dance, games, stories and legends, and this kind of cultural heritage is presented through numerous festivals, events and tourist manifesta...

Jews in Serbia always represented a micro-community. However, the interesting fact is that even in post-war period, the decline of Jewish population in Serbia continued. The Jewish communities mostly inhabited Belgrade and Vojvodina region (especially Bačka region). The study is based on statistical and historical data about the events concerning t...

Ключевые слова: культурное наследие, крепость Петроварадин, EXIT, Нови Сад, Сербия Key words: events, cultural heritage, Petrovaradin fortress, Exit festival, Novi Sad, Serbia Резюме. Традиционно, ряд культурных и исторических памятников в Сербии, являются местом проведения ряда мероприятий. С точки зрения выбора места проведения события наиболее...

'Cultural routes' are a term recently used in scientific literature to define cultural tourism offer based on a set of mutually connected tourist attractions and destinations. The way of travel within a cultural route usually consists of roads with significant scenic, cultural, historical, geological or natural values, and incorporates the sightsee...

TRUMPET FESTIVAL IN GUČA: SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE AND THE MOTIVES FOR VISITING by Željko Bjeljac z.bjeljac@gi.sanu.ac.rs Aleksandra Terzić a.terzic@gi.sanu.ac.rs Jovana Brankov j.brankov@gi.sanu.ac.rs Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Geographical Institute „Jovan Cvijić“, Belgrade SUMMARY: Trumpet Festival in Guča, or The First Trumpet of Dr...

During the turn of the century, the current data of registered fires in Stara planina were insufficient to up date and incomplete, which directly conditioned unintended purpose of prevention and fire protection. With the advent and development of new technologies (remote sensing, GIS, GPS, etc.), since 2010 various data patterns of fire have been c...

This paper, by using Hilary du Cros model, valorize 31 natural and 36 anthropogenic values on the territory of 26 municipalities in Serbia that are constantly defined as undeveloped. Values with the greatest potentials for tourism development, which are singled out into the municipal and other official documents (strategies, master plans, spatial p...

Abstract: Tourist events are considered as very important aspect of tourist offer of cities. In the current tourist offer, tourism of events presents a kind of tourism that could contribute to extending the tourist demand, especially if tourist site or region already posses natural and anthropogenic values. Municipality of Kruševac represents regio...

Дворци и летњиковци на територији АП Војводине, представљају значајан али неискоришћен елемент туристичке понуде Војводине, као део културног наслеђа - објеката изграђених с краја XVIII и током XIX века, са првобитном наменом за одмор, рекреацију и разоноду племићких породица и великих индустријалаца Аустрије и Угарске. После Другог светског рата и...

Туризм в Сербии тесно связан с экономическим развитием и четко отражает многие черты общих социальных и политических событий в Сербии и за ее пределами. В этой статье представлено развитие туризма в Сербии с турпотоком, потенциалами и перспективами развития туризма. Кроме того, подчеркиваются природныe антропогенные туристические достопримечательно...

Trumpet Festival in Guca, or The First Trumpet of Dragacevo, which was the initial name of this event, becomes a kind of a brand of Serbia as a tourist destination. Every year this festival is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists from Serbia and abroad, and brass trumpet bands from around the world. As the Trumpet Festival is among the most...

Within a more globalized and growing tourism, the role of the niche sectors - such as the cultural tourism and eco-tourism - is becoming of strategic importance, particularly in times of financial crises.UNESCO designated sites - namely, the World Heritage sites and the Biosphere Reserves - are playing a growing role in visitors’ destination manage...

One of the rules in tourism is that visitor demand depends on and is based on attractions. Talking about attraction interpretation necessitates is considering why a visitor at any time would like to visit a place, event or a site. Tourism in heritage sites is a relatively young and immature activity in Serbia, and the interpretation on these sites...

Within a more globalised and growing tourism, the role of cultural tourism and other niche sectors is becoming of strategic importance. This study tries to examine the management practices in using representative cultural assests in Serbia, on the example of two most representative fortresses Belgrade and Petrovaradin fortresses. The reason Belgrad...

Generative regions are the areas that generate touristic demand. It is important to aknowledge the potential of certain countries to generate touristic flows. This is essential asset for the development of destination countries in its souroundings, as well as faraway tourism destinations. The contribution of every country to the world tourism shoul...