Danijela Pantovic

• PhD in Economics
• Assistant Professor at University of Kragujevac

The aim of the research is to examine the economic efficiency of rural tourist households in the Republic of Serbia engaged in rural tourism at their households. To achieve the research goal, two dependent variables were observed: (1) satisfaction with tourist visits and accommodation capacity occupancy, and (2) satisfaction with earnings from rura...

Purpose-Digital transformation in the sector of rural tourism, along with the digital literacy of farmers, is increasingly becoming an imperative for the successful operation of rural tourist households. However, research in this field is scarce in Serbia, which motivated the authors to explore it in more detail. The aim of the research was to exam...

This study explores the interaction of key indicators that reflect tourism's contribution to economic development, including total and direct employment contributions, total and direct contributions to GDP, capital investment, and visitor exports (foreign consumption). Using data from the Travel and Tourism Development Index for 2019, published by...

One of the main things driving the growth of culinary, or more accurately, beverage tourism, is the “beer revolution,” or the proliferation of craft beer production. Investigating the reasons and perceptions of tourists about the beer tourism experience is vital in the lack of comparable studies. The purpose of this study is to add to the extremely...

The essence of sustainable development is to enable the satisfaction of current needs that will not prevent future generations from satisfying their needs. The development of mass tourism has threatened its sustainability. Therefore tourism must evolve and develop in accordance with the generally accepted principles of sustainable development. Ther...

The main objective of this paper is to perform a detailed analysis of the scientific literature on cultural tourism in rural areas through a bibliometric study of the papers indexed in the Web of Science database. The bibliometric analysis was carried out using performance analysis and science mapping techniques. Authors' keywords and KeyWords Plus...

Tourism is the industry most affected by the pandemic. However, one form of tourism most successfully "swam" in the flood that hit the tourism industry. It is rural tourism. In this paper, the aim is to assess the capacity and occupancy of rural tourism in EU countries and selected candidates. In order to assess the set goal, the evaluation of tour...

The traditional Serbian folk dance Kolo was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017. Kolo is a communal folk dance that is performed at both public and private celebrations of the most significant occasions in people's lives and the lives of communities. Kolo is an important socially integr...

Despite the valuable economic benefits of tourism, it must be highlighted that the tourism industry is an important source of stress for the environment with the main influence on tourist destinations. The aim of this study is to investigate the elements of environmental sustainability in tourism as key factors in the competitiveness of tourism usi...

The aim of this paper is to determine the interrelationship between innovation, proactivity and risk-taking, as a dimension of entrepreneurial orientation and their connection with relational capital, in order to indicate the entrepreneurial behavior that gives the best results for the development of sustainable rural tourism. The research was cond...

Recent studies indicate a decennial decline in wild edible plant resources consumption and use in traditional cuisine, while Covid-19 reversed this situation in the last two years into increased demands for well-rooted traditional products. By using the literary potential of wild edible plants in gastronomy and semi-structured interviews (n-29) in...

The asymmetric level of integration within the European Union (EU) regarding membership in the European Monetary Union (EMU) has resulted in inconsistent responses to crises such as the Great Recession of 2007–2009 and the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010–2013. Furthermore, it has led to varying outcomes of monetary and fiscal policies implem...

The COVID-19 crisis has put the European Union's (EU) ability to respond to external challenges to test. It is not a new issue that has arisen due to the current crisis. The global economic crisis of 2008, and, in particular, the sovereign debt crisis of 2010, highlighted the need for institutional, policy and political reform to ensure the stabili...

Ecosystem services (ES) have been the subjects of a number of studies in the recent ten years. There were many attempts to valuate ecosystem services from ecological, social and economic aspects. The fact is there are limited numbers of studies focused on the place of tourism as a part of cultural ecosystem services in the frame of rural surroundin...

In recent years, there has been an increasing research interest and potential of cultural heritage tourism. The potential of the Republic of Serbia's cultural legacy has, however, received little attention. The paper, after providing a theoretical framework in the context of cultural heritage tourism, analyzes the impact of tourism commercializatio...

The study presented in the paper employs the benefit-based approach to analyse the potentials of dark tourism as a context which outlines cultural tourism within a broader framework of contemporary tourism development. The focus of the research is the Kragujevački oktobar Memorial Park, which is one of the most infamous dark tourism spots in Serbia...

One of the main problems the world is currently dealing with is unemployment. The characteristics of the labor market in the Republic of Serbia are long-term high unemployment rate, unfavorable qualification structure, high youth unemployment rate, regionally unequally distributed unemployment, and insufficient measures of active state employment p...

The global economic crisis was caused by the COVID-19 virus, the beginnings of which date back to December 2019. Is not an ordinary crisis, but belongs to the phenomenon that can only be compared to the crisis of 1929. Transport and tourism are among the economic sectors that were most affected by this crisis due to the quarantine measures that wer...

Modern tourists are looking for new experiences, i.e. they no longer focus on familiar types of vacation. Rural areas with their material and spiritual heritage can create a product according to the expectations and needs of modern tourists. The 2008 financial crisis and the current health crisis caused by the COVID - 19 pandemic have changed prefe...

The future of tourism is seen today as a key force in the process of globalization. When learning about culture, the origin of the destination is also very important, and the story of the destination is interesting if it has the history of a given culture. This paper generates short-term indicators of the development of the municipality of Vrnjačka...

III naučno-stručna konferencija "Digitalni mediji u funkciji održivog razvoja kulturnog nasleđa“ Sremski Karlovci, 1. oktobar 2022.

Rural space, protected areas, and nature in general become so-called “hot spots” in the tourist perspective in the last two years. The covid-19 outbreak caused growing commercial tourism to have a tendency to transform and go a step far from sustainability to regenerative directions. These changes consider “to rebuild”, “renew”, and “getting back t...

The most common definition in the professional literature is that climate is a product of the climate system. The climate system is a complex dynamic system whose basic parts are: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and their mutual relations and actions. Climate change is one of the most frequently mentioned negative phenomena in r...

The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation in the development of rural tourism in the Rasina district, as well as to suggest possible solutions to the recorded problems. For that purpose, empirical research was conducted in Lomnica, Kupci, Kukljin, Jasika, Gornji Stepoš, Naupare, Trmčare on a sample of 288 respondents who live in...

Cultural tourism and the prospects it has are increasingly being talked about in academic circles. During the travels around the world, the terms cultural tourism and cultural heritage management have been constantly functioning in recent years. However, although experts in the field of cultural tourism and the tourism industry have multidimensiona...

In order to gain a real insight into the foreign trade of developing countries and their mutual relationship with foreign trade, it is necessary to provide empirical evidence among countries that represent the end effects of international trade. In addition to the focus on the direct effect on growth in these developing economies, the impact of oth...

Closely related to traditional agriculture consumption of wild plants it significantly contributes to the existence of the human species. The aim of this paper is to determine the value of ethnobotanical parameters (RFC, CI, CV) for the most important species that participate in creating the gastronomic offer of ecotourism destinations. The researc...

Research question: The objective of this paper is to examine the level of the development of spa tourism with a special review of the wellness tourist offer of the Republic of Serbia, and also which factors of this tourist offer we should pay special attention to and improve, to achieve the highest level of tourist loyalty. Motivation: The tourism...

The topic of this paper represents a relatively new and still evolving term of socially responsible business, with a focus on application of this concept to transport companies. The goal of this paper is to formulate, in accordance with results gained from the study, concrete potential guidelines for more socially responsible business of transport...

A convergence process, defined as the process of the economic indicators harmonization within the European Union, can be observed from the nominal and the real point of view. Real convergence is a quite interesting issue since it has a long-term influence on the growth and development of this regional integration as a whole and its competitive posi...

Using data from 19 countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU), this paper examines the nature of tourism performance and the ranking of countries according to given parameters in tourism in the period 2012-2017. As tourism cannot be analyzed as an isolated scientific discipline, it is necessary to use a multidimensional and multicriteria approa...

The aim of this research is to explore, on a well-founded theoretical basis, debt sustainability, through a panel of 34 countries divided into three groups according to the economic integration level, as well as to explore whether EU candidate countries have poorer fiscal indicators than EU members. By providing a comprehensive picture of public an...

Today the tourism industry is considered as very attractive economic activity. However, among undergraduate tourism students, there are various and often distorted information and opinions regarding the skills that are necessary to acquire during the studies, career development, work opportunities and working conditions. The aim of the paper is to...

Tourism has huge and growing importance for the global economy, especially for the economies of developing countries. It represents the leading economic branch in many countries which is confirmed by the revenues they generate. However, there is an increasing emphasis on tourism events and a very large number of trips for satisfaction purposes that...

The interconnection of tourism and transport activity is present at all levels of development of society and economy. The occurrence of rail, then car and plane has led to the transformation of tourism from an individual into a mass phenomenon. The general economic expansion, the rise in living standards, and especially the rapid development of tou...

The goal of economic development is that the economy with its ability to attain the highest level of productivity and meet the unceasing needs of its nation. Thanks to technical and technological achievements, it is evident that economic development continues. However, the whole process of development requires the spending of resources that are lim...

The purpose of the paper is to present a rural tourism destination and its tourist turnover, in the case study of Ivanjica municipality. Rural tourism is one of the leading tourism products in the global tourism market. Rural tourism destinations have become very prominent in many countries, including Serbia. Within these destinations there are var...

The raise of the income level and the standard of living is one of the basic expectations of the European transition countries, which is why these countries have a strong interest in becoming full members of this intergovernmental and supranational union. European transition countries that have joined the European Union, have significantly increase...

The subject of this work is the Phillips curve paradigm in macroeconomics with an emphasis on its development in New Keynesian theory. The main objective of the work is to reach scientifically relevant and practically useful knowledge on the concept of the Phillips curve and development its application to the related macroeconomic variables in Serb...

In modern living conditions, consumers have access to a greater offer of food products than ever before. In addition to local food products, the growth of foreign food products is noticeable, which significantly intensifies competition in this sector. The paper analyzes whether and how national identity and prestige affect the assessment of local f...

Realization of the undeniable role of banks in the functioning of the economic system assumes their successful business, based on the achievement of key financial performance. Interrelatedness and interdependence of bank performance indicators, their dynamic relationship, and interaction, on the one hand, as well as differences and contradictions,...

Tourism is one of leading economic activities in the EU, which significantly contributes to economic development. In order to achieve a sustainable, responsive and high-quality tourism development, it is necessary to plan a strategy that will efficiently use and intensify the processes of tourism development in the EU. The variations in the types a...

Bearing in mind the numerous advantages of EU membership, it is not surprising that large number of European economies have a keen interest in becoming full members of this intergovernmental and supranational union. The issue of economic and monetary integration into the European Union has been actual in the last few years. Keep in mind the uneven...

Abstract: In a contemporary conditions characterized by intense globalization, frequent economic crises and ecological disasters with increasing scope, ensuring long-term sustainable development becomes an imperative for all economies. In order to tackle these challenges, the European Commission adopted the Europe 2020 strategy in June 2010. The go...

Sustainable development is most commonly defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, where the emphasis is on harmonization of environmental, economic, social and institutional components, as key pillars of sustainable development. In modern environment,...

Sustainable development is most commonly defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, where the emphasis is on harmonization of environmental, economic, social and institutional components, as key pillars of sustainable development. In modern environment,...

Joining countries to achieve long term mutual goals and to improve economic performance is not new subject in economic literature and in researches. However, this segment of macroeconomics is more actualized with the development of globalization, transition and other economic and political changes of the modern world, especially popularized with th...

Global economic and financial integration has led to the necessity of convergence the financial and economic criteria in all countries that are part of integration. The main criteria that Europe leads are the criteria set by the European Union. Apart from Copenhagen criteria, which are a condition for membership in this integration, it is necessary...

The problems of deficit and debt are the traditional drivers of the recession in the past. Due to the high impact of the budget deficit to increase in indebtedness and deterioration of a macroeconomic performance, the European Union in Maastricht Treaty and later in the Pact of Stability and Growth strictly defined fiscal criteria which the member...

For the years back the Republic of Serbia is characterized by the existence and continual rising in trade deficit and public debt. Also, there is a high import dependence of economy. In addition, expressed import dependence is not adequately compensated by exports, and that precludes regular servicing of external debt, having in mind that the Repub...

This issue of Serbian Journal of Management (SJM 11(2) 2016), besides containing regular research papers, is containing the papers which resulted from the International May Conference on Strategic Management - IMKSM2016 and the Students Symposium with the main topic: “Environmental awareness as a universal European Value” which was financially supp...