Sanja Obradović Strålman

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• Doctor of Philosophy in Geosciences - Tourism
• Research Associate at University of Novi Sad

The aim of this research is to explore the attitudes of the local community towards sustainable tourism development in the protected area River Gradac and examine the effectiveness of the sustainable tourism attitude scale. Sustainable tourism attitude scale (SUS-TAS) is used for analyzing local residents’ attitudes towards sustainable tourism deve...

Residents' attitudes to tourism activities are crucial for sustainable tourism development. The sustainable tourism attitude scale (SUS-TAS) is implemented as a basis for analyzing local residents' attitudes towards sustainable tourism development. The aim of this research is to explore the attitudes of the local community (n = 1233) towards sustai...

The article underscores the importance of women’s empowerment in achieving SDG-5, “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls,” while promoting sustainable tourism within biosphere reserves. Gender equality and women’s empowerment are essential for advancing sustainable development, specifically within UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, which...

Tourism destinations are groups of particular stakeholders whose lives are influenced by the actions of both residents and visitors, either by direct or indirect means. Locals interact with the destination more frequently than visitors, and their actions have a stronger impact on the ecosystem and resources. The study aims to explain factors influe...

Religious tourism holds a significant place in travel experiences, particularly at monasteries, where visitors often encounter profound emotional experiences. This study aims to investigate the emotional experiences and place attachment of religious tourism at monasteries in Serbia, utilizing quantitative methods and an online survey approach. Thro...

One of the most well-liked types of vacation is a beach vacation. The purpose of this study is to find out which activities make people feel excited or bored on beach vacations. A total of 1,322 surveys were collected from Serbians on summer beach vacations. Data collection employed convenience and snowball sampling techniques, and structural equat...

Sustainable tourism integrates economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainability. This study investigates the local community's perceptions of tourism development impacts and factors influencing support for sustainable tourism and destination sustainability within Stara Planina Nature Park. Using a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) app...

This paper assessed aridity and humidity conditions in Bačka (north Serbia) in the period 1949–2018. The assessment was based on the analysis of air temperature and total precipitation from 5 meteorological stations. Spatio-temporal changes were determined based on aridity indices, statistical and interpolation procedures. The Mann–Kendall indicate...

Attitudes towards environment are important for organizing nature protection, especially in countries undergoing political and economic transition. In this paper, attitudes of visitors, local communities and stakeholders towards the environment and nature protection are researched online and within the Special Nature Reserve and surroundings settle...

The paper analyzes the spatio-temporal dynamics of changes in the state of land cover and land use in Bačka (1990-2018). The changes were recorded based on the monitoring of the CORINE Land Cover (CLC) database during the analyzed periods. The CORINE remote sensing program integrated with GIS software recorded the following land cover changes: a) o...

Апстракт: Рецентне климатске промене представљају један од највећих проблема са аспекта животне средине и представљају узрок климатских екстрема попут суше и аридности. Предмет рада је представљање услова аридности у Бачкој коришћењем индекса аномалија падавина (RAI). У раду су употребљене месечне и годишње вредности падавина (1990-2018) са 5 метео...

The study aimed to analyze changes in water quality based on ten physicochemical parameters for the Danube River in Bačka. Data from three profiles over a twenty-year interval were used and processed using multivariate statistics. An ANOVA indicated that the quality of surface water is mostly at a satisfactory level. Sufficient amounts of dissolved...

Wetlands provide extensive ecological services for life on Earth, but they are facing rapid global disappearance under the influence of human activities and climate change. Therefore, it is of great importance to ensure the wise use of wetlands. Local residents’ attitudes toward sustainable tourism in wetlands are essential to the sustainable manag...

Climate change strongly affects ecosystems, and there is a certain risk that the negative impacts will increase in the future. Climate variability has a significant influence on the availability and quality of water resources. The effects of climate change on the hydrological cycle and water quality in a catchment are closely linked. Changes in air...

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which residents’ perceptions of their place image can predict their perceptions of the impacts of tourism, and ultimately, to elucidate their support for sustainable tourism development in Midyat, Turkey. This city currently faces a range of negative impacts associated with tourism, such as infl...

Outstanding natural features created by geological processes attract various people and enable the development of certain forms of sustainable tourism. Geotourism is associated with the socioeconomic development of the local community, but if the development is not carefully approached, it can have negative consequences not only for the natural res...

The main objectives of this research were twofold: firstly, to evaluate tourists’ perception of Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve, one of the four significant protected areas within the Serbian part of Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve, and secondly, to identify the motivations behind tourists’ visits to wetlands and their overall satisfac...

Local communities face a double-edged sword when it comes to tourism development; their attitude directly influences tourism growth and helps spread the word within the community. The local community is increasingly affected socioeconomically by tourism development, which results in the development of attitudes (both positive and negative) based on...

The establishment of the UNESCO Global Network of Geoparks was one of the most significant initiatives in the field of geoconservation. A geopark is an area with clearly defined boundaries for the protection and promotion of not only geoheritage objects but also all other natural and cultural-historical values. Djerdap is one of Serbia's most geolo...

Providing memorable experiences is considered very effective strategy for gaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Memorable tourism experience (MTE) is still a relatively novel concept, hence its antecedents and outcomes are not completely identified. The primary goal of this research was to explore tourist personality and travel motivation as...

This study aims to investigate whether people during winter mountain activities experience boredom or excitement, and what effects that has. The Leisure Boredom Scale was used to categorize visitors based on how exciting or bored they felt. The impact of their feeling of excitement or boredom on their satisfaction, intention to return, and positive...

This study aims to investigate how national parks, identified as remarkable and, therefore, worthy of the trip, are visited and experienced. The main objective of this study was to explore the influence of memorable tourism experiences on environmentally responsible behavior, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions as its outcome. By giving an acco...

Protected Areas (PAs) are an important cornerstone of conservation efforts, which aim to stop habitat and species loss. However, conservation policies must also take into consideration the local community as an integral part of these areas. This study reveals the importance of understanding the local community's perception of the impact of PAs on t...

One of the most important elements of tourism development is encouraging the participation of the local community. In order to encourage their participation, it is necessary to be aware of the attitudes of the local residents with respect to the development of tourism. The aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of the local community to...

Tourist activities are often related to rivers, which also form an important element of the landscape visited by tourists. Changes in the quality of water resources or their availability can therefore have a negative impact on tourism. For monitoring the water quality of the Danube in Bačka, the values on selected profiles – Bezdan, Bogojevo and No...

The appearance of social media has brought great changes to the tourism journey. Various such platforms have become an almost inevitable tool in all phases of travel, including organization of travel, during travel, and post-travel. Given the growing popularity of social networks and their widespread use, it is being considered how much they can in...

Nature-based tourism has become one of the most popular leisure activities in the world. Activities in nature-based sites bring tourists closer to nature and enable them to find out more about the area through which they are walking by discovering diverse heritage and ethnographic features, situated on or near the hiking trails. It brings a wide ra...

This paper is one of the results of three years research (2016-2019) of specific habitats of salinesteppes and forest steppes along the Mostonga River, in the northern part of Serbia (Autonomous Province of Vojvodina), with the aim of their valorization and protection in the future. Here is also situated a natural areain the process of protection k...

This paper aims to identify possibilities for paranormal tourism development in Serbia and to determine domestic tourists' interest in participating in paranormal tourism. Paranormal places and bizarre rituals have been defined as potential paranormal tourism localities and events. Paranormal tourism is one of the new forms of special interest tour...

Abstract This study explores local community attitudes toward ecotourism as a form of sustainable tourism in the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve in Serbia using the Sustainable Tourism Attitude Scale (SUS-TAS). Residents of the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve acknowledge the sociocultural and economic benefits of ecotourism development while recogn...

Tourism in biosphere reserves is recognized as a method of providing a way to develop small and locally anchored tourism based on natural values, with the ambition to minimize negative environmental impacts, as a way to encourage nature and local community engagement in sustainable ways and enable learning to achieve sustainability. This thesis rep...

Special Nature Reserve „Gornje Podunavlje” (MaB, IPA, IBA, Ramsar) represents one of the largest and most well-preserved floodplain areas in Serbia. It is characterized by great biodiversity. The best way to get to know the natural values of this area is through ecological-educational trails. There are three sites with well-maintained trails in the...

Ecotourism is a nature-based type of tourism, especially represented within protected areas. No matter the fact, just like the other selective types of this sector, ecotourism might affect the environment. In a process of writing the Visitor Management Plan in the Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve (SNR) in 2019, one part of the study was rel...

The hotel industry is one of the most dominant service industries in today's modern times. How its primary role is to provide services and meet the needs of guests, the quality of communication with customers is of great importance. Customer aggression is a very common phenomenon among hotel industry employees, especially in frontline positions. It...

Sustainable tourism connects the economic, social and environmental components of sustainability. This paper analyzes the local community’s perceptions of the impact of tourism development and examines the factors that influence the support for sustainable tourism development in the Stara Planina Nature Park. Local community perceptions towards tou...

This research aims to determine the attitudes of local residents' toward the impact of tourism development in the Tara National Park. The positive attitude of local community is very important and it leads to the successful functioning of the national park in all spheres and it can significantly facilitate actions aimed at conservation and sustaina...

The main objective of the study is to analyse the perception of accessibility to cultural for different age groups (children, teenagers, adults and seniors) in the city of Novi Sad (Serbia). Additional goals were to reveal which cultural contents in the city are the most important to which particular age group and to measure the level of compatibil...

Local residents' attitude toward sustainable tourism is crucial to community involvement and tourism development. The purpose of this research is to analyze the attitude of local residents towards sustainable tourism development in the Landscape of Outstanding Features-River Gradac Gorge (n = 853). Data are collected using a structured online quest...

One of the core elements of tourism development is to encourage local communities' participation, as this is crucial to the sustainability of tourism industry. This study seeks to explore the perception of and satisfaction with tourism development in the Uvac Special Nature Reserve among local communities. The paper examines the relationships among...

‘Bačko Podunavlje’ represents one of the largest and the best-preserved wetland areas of the upper Danube. Water quality is crucial for nature in protected areas and ecotourism. The paper is based on data for the period 1992–2016. Using multivariate statistical analysis, water quality was defined. One-factor analysis of variations is the starting p...

Within the concept of sustainable development, ecotourism has emerged as a special form of tourism aimed at preserving and protecting natural and cultural resources, but also at contributing to the well?being of the local community. Although today the importance of ecotourism is recognized worldwide, there are countries that, despite their natural...