Predrag Stamenkovic

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Geosciences
• Professor at Academy of Applied Studies Southern Serbia

The study examines the economic feasibility of procuring local agricultural products in small and medium-sized hotels, emphasizing key factors influencing managerial decision making. By integrating perceived cost savings, supplier reliability, customer demand, and regulatory support, this research provides a comprehensive framework for understandin...

Purpose - Food waste management is becoming an increasingly significant global challenge, especially in the hospitality industry, where large amounts of waste are generated, leading to negative environmental, social and economic consequences. This research explores how tourists perceive food waste in Serbian hotels, aiming to uncover the main psych...

Tourism development in modern conditions is very much dependent on different changes occurring in relation to demand, global challenges and problems that greatly affect this particular sector. Certain changes have a rather positive effect on tourism while others affect it in a negative way. These days, tourism is characterized by a dynamic growth i...

Natural and anthropogenic tourist values, along with the appropriate tourist infrastructure and superstructure, represent the basis for the development of tourism in an area. In modern conditions, when it comes to tourist demand, there are more and more specific motives that encourage tourists to travel. This leads to the segmentation of tourist de...

The practice so far has shown that the tourist destination is managed through the public sector, private companies or according to the model of public-private partnership. Modern business and everyday life is unthinkable without the use of social networks and e-marketing. There is an unbroken link between the products of the information sector, soc...

The aim of this paper is to assess the current problems and limitations in the development of tourism in the region of South and Eastern Serbia, as well as analysis of tourist traffic in this region. There are numerous natural and anthropogenic tourist values on the territory of the South and East Serbia region, which represent the comparative adva...

The competitiveness of the Jablanica District as a tourist destination can be profiled by identification and determinationof certain factors significance for tourism development.By analyzing factors such as tourist attractions, supporting factors and resources, indicators of market participation and others, it is possible to determine the competiti...

The principal aim of this paper was to explore destination competitiveness factors of Jablanica District (Serbia), by examining the attitudes of tourists. For research purposes, 32 attributes of destination competitiveness were rated with two parallel five-point Likert type scales-one by which tourists rated the importance of the attribute and the...

The main aim of the paper is to investigate the influence of formal education level on decision-making process when choosing a tourist destination based on multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). The survey was conducted on the sample of 252 respondents from Backa region (Vojvodina/Serbia). Also, this study strives to examine the influence of e...

The main objective of this paper is to identify and determine the significance of certain factors for tourism competitiveness in Jablanica District (Serbia). In this study we used a questionnaire in order to determine factors of image of Jablanica District tourist destination, by examining the attitudes of internal stakeholders (tourism managers an...

Travel agencies play a very important role in the tourism market. Contribution of travel agencies is a result of the role that they have in tourist traffic and travel facilitation. They appear as mediators between tourists that require a range of services and business entities that provide those services. Their main task is, therefore, to connect a...

Jablanica district represents mainly rural and economically underdeveloped part of Serbia. However, it is characterized by a favorable geographical position, great natural and cultural resources, which are not yet adequately valorized and presented on the tourism market. This paper, with appropriate statistical procedures, processes both, importanc...

Agroturizam terminološku upotrebu u etimološkom pogledu nalazi u agraru, što znači da je osnova razvoja ovog oblika turizma poljoprivreda. Ali poljoprivreda ne podrazumeva samo tradicionalne i ekstenzivne forme, već i napredne koje su intenzivnog karaktera, kao na primer razvijeni kombinatski tip. Nije sporno da se ruralni turizam vezuje, između os...

Veliki broj termomineralnih izvora, duga tradicija banjskih mesta i njihov značaj za razvoj turizma učinili su da banjski turizam postane jedan od najrazvijenijih oblika turizma u Srbiji. Ovaj oblik turizma je, tokom vremena, ispoljavao brojne specifičnosti. Mnoge od njih su prisutne i danas, a odnose se na naglašenu koncentraciju prometa u toku le...

Tema ovog rada je korišćenje brendiranja kao moćnog alata za povećanje vrednosti prehrambenih proizvoda ali i poboljšanje turizma u oblastima iz kojih dolaze. Naime, brendiranje potrošačima pruža garanciju kvaliteta a proizvođačima obezbeđuje diferencijaciju proizvoda. U savremenim tržišnim uslovima, javio se manjak zdravih, tradicionalnih, lokalni...