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SITCON 2017 Conference Proceedings
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About the Conference SITCON 2017
It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the third international scientific conference in the field of tourism and hospitality - SITCON 2017 (Singidunum International Tourism Conference), held on June 8, 2017 at Singidunum University in Belgrade. The principal aims of the conference were to provide a significant scientific contribution in the domain of religious tourism, as a specific product of tourist destinations, to create the basis for better understanding of the concept of religious tourism development and its impact to cultures, peace and economic development, and to help tourist destinations become competitive and recognisable owing to their religious tourism products. The study of tourism market trends are of great importance for the development of religious tourism as a tourism destination product, as well as achieving its sustainable development, particularly in relation to 2017 as the UN International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. SITCON 2017 provided an ideal platform for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of best practices among scientists and experts from various fields, as well as representatives of the public and the private sector (travel agencies, tour operators, hotel enterprises and other segments of accommodation offer, transportation companies and companies related to other complementary activities, as well as tourism organisations, the public sector and religious communities) in relation to the conference topics. Introductory speakers at the plenary session were: Prof. Milovan Stanišić, PhD, President of Singidunum University; Mr. Rasim Ljajić, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunication of the Government of the Republic of Serbia; His Holiness Patriarch of Serbia Irinej, Archbishop of Peć and Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci; His Excellency Monsignor Stanislav Hočevar, Roman Catholic Metropolitan and Archbishop of Belgrade; Sead ef. Nasufović Reisu-l-ulema, Islamic Community of Serbia; His Eminence Metropolitan of Dodoni Chrysostomos, President оf the Synodical Office for Pilgrimage Tours and Development of Religious Tourism of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece; Slobodan Unković, PhD, professor emeritus, Singidunum University; Mrs. Marija Labović, Acting Director of the National Tourism Organization of Serbia. The SITCON 2017 keynote speakers delivered compelling and valuable introductory lectures: Razaq Raj, PhD, Leeds Beckett University, UK: The Application of Destination Management Models for Religious Destinations; Renata Tomljenović, PhD, Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia: Religious tourism – a journey from a tourism product to an agent of societal transformation; Christos Petreas, Business and Tourism Economist – Synodical Office for Pilgrimage Tours and Development of Religious Tourism of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece: Productive Activities of Monasteries as Religious Tourism Products. SITCON 2017 was attended by over 250 scientific workers, tourism and hospitality experts, members of the religious communities of Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, representatives of the tourism industry, professors and students. A total of 107 authors from 14 different countries submitted papers to SITCON-2017 conference (all papers and abstracts submitted, including invited papers). The number of papers submitted for this year’s conference was 47 and the total number of accepted papers and abstracts was 37. Our extensive team of reviewers did a successful job of handling the entire review process. The Scientific Committee comprised 26 reputable professors from Serbia and 22 professors from 20 renowned foreign universities and two foreign tourism expert institutions (Australia 1; Austria: 1; Belgium 1; Bosnia and Herzegovina 1; Bulgaria 1; Croatia 4; Germany 2; Ireland 1; Israel, 1; Macedonia 1; Montenegro 1; Romania 1; Slovenia 1; South Africa 1; Spain 1; United Kingdom 3). The conference has made a significant contribution to raising awareness about religious tourism and its development as part of the special interests tourism in Serbia and the Balkan region. Esteemed readers, on behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of SITCON 2017, we would like to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all participants for their valuable contributions.
We sincerely hope that you shall take part in our future conferences held at Singidunum University, with a new theme and innovative papers.
Belgrade, October 2017
Organizing Committee of the International Scientific Conference SITCON 2017
In an eighth‐grade English language arts class, 100 students used virtual reality headsets, augmented reality–capable smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, online scavenger hunts, and print‐based texts as an introduction to William Shakespeare's life and works. The authors highlight the need for educators to offer multimodal instruction that responds to literary appetites of adolescent readers. A preservice teaching candidate and two teacher educators experimented with multimodal instruction to support introductory activities that helped adolescent readers develop meaningful relationships with challenging texts. Findings showcase literacy engagement characterized by immersion, collaboration, and modernization of content. Recommendations are made for future research in the area of multimodal literacy learning.
This research aims at finding out the role of technology and information in the company. Generally, information and communication technology aims at providing a general understanding of information and communication technology equipment. This research aims to examine the importance of the application of information technology for a government to obtain the value chain of information technology, which is beneficial for all aspects of efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The research method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method through the socialization of questionnaires and interviews to employees of the Bandung City Government to get more in-depth information. The results prove that information technology has a very important impact on employee performance because it will facilitate all activities to be faster, precise, and accurate, including in the Bandung government. It is because it has utilized modern information technology in managing government management. In conclusion, this research is important to improve the understanding that information technology is necessary and beneficial for the government and win the competition with the private sector. The government must have advantages, core competitiveness, strategies, and innovations, especially in information technology.
With the impact of global internationalization, tourism economy has also been a rapid development. The increasing interest aroused by more advanced forecasting methods leads us to innovate forecasting methods. In this paper, the seasonal trend autoregressive integrated moving averages with dendritic neural network model (SA-D model) is proposed to perform the tourism demand forecasting. First, we use the seasonal trend autoregressive integrated moving averages model (SARIMA model) to exclude the long-term linear trend and then train the residual data by the dendritic neural network model and make a short-term prediction. As the result showed in this paper, the SA-D model can achieve considerably better predictive performances. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the SA-D model, we also use the data that other authors used in the other models and compare the results. It also proved that the SA-D model achieved good predictive performances in terms of the normalized mean square error, absolute percentage of error, and correlation coefficient.
Tourism to religious sites, shrines, temples, churches and religious festivities is significantly growing worldwide. Central and Southeastern Europe is historically a region where different ethnic and religious groups live. In the last century, during the 40 years of Communist rule over the social and political system in the Carpathian Basin, religion was banished and spiritual life could be practised mainly within the domestic environment. Since 1990, former socialist countries like Hungary (as also for example Poland, Slovakia, Romania etc.) have turned to capitalism, but without being prepared for the social, economical and psychological changes, with which that process would affect individuals and families. Faith and pilgrimages seem to have regained their roles in people's lives. This paper outlines an integrative framework on Christian religious tourism and discusses its cultural aspects. The framework emphasises the identification of geographical aspects of the phenomenon in terms of scale (local, regional, national and international) as well as in terms of the research theme (cultural, political and health-related aspects). In the first part, the history of religious tourism and its integrative framework are presented based on relevant international literature. In the second part of the paper, the focus is on the development and interpretation of the Via Maria pilgrimage route (especially at its most important station, Mátraverebély-Szentkút), the first established within the Central and Southeastern European area, and the primary results of our field research are presented.
The halal industry is still in its early stages of development, and efforts to chart the way forward in compliance with Islamic principles are desirable and necessary. As with Islamic banking in the early years, this industry has also been largely driven by market demands and realities. It would be advisable to enrich the achievements of the halal industry with research efforts that advance a better understanding of Islamic principles and the scientific knowledge relevant to our concerns. The article begins with a review of evidence in the Qur'an and hadith on the halal or mubah, and then proceeds to address the haram. The later part of the article covers the reprehensible (makruh) and the recommendable (mandub) respectively, as well as fiqh and the relationship between Islam and science.
We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! revealed how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machines that sense, learn, reason, and interact with people in new ways to provide insight and advice. This book introduces the fascinating world of “cognitive systems” to general audiences and provides a window into the future of computing. Cognitive systems promise to penetrate complexity and assist people and organizations in better decision making. They can help doctors evaluate and treat patients, augment the ways we see, anticipate major weather events, and contribute to smarter urban planning. The book describes this technology inside and out and explains how it will help us conquer the harnessing and understanding of “big data,” one of the major computing challenges facing businesses and governments in the coming decades.
The second edition of Kosher Food Production explores the intricate relationship between modern food production and related Kosher application. Following an introduction to basic Kosher laws, theory and practice, Rabbi Blech details the essential food production procedures required of modern food plants to meet Kosher certification standards. Chapters on Kosher application include ingredient management; rabbinic etiquette; Kosher for Passover; and the industries of fruits and vegetables, baking, biotechnology, dairy, fish, flavor, meat and poultry, oils, fats, and emulsifiers, and food service. New to this edition are chapters covering Kosher application in the candy and confections industries and the snack foods industry. A collection of over 50 informative commodity-specific essays - specifically geared to the secular audience of food scientists - then follows, giving readers insight and understanding of the concerns behind the Kosher laws they are expected to accommodate. Several essays new to the second edition are included. Kosher Food Production, Second Edition serves as an indispensable outline of the issues confronting the application of Kosher law to issues of modern food technology.
The legality of ritual slaughter rests upon both law and merits. On the one hand, the international freedom of religion requires that communities can obtain meat of a suitable standard, and on the other, current scientific literature indicates that any distinct risks to animal welfare are manageable. Despite this, ritual slaughter remains controversial, particularly Jewish kosher slaughter (Shechita), for which electrical pre-stunning before throat-cutting – arguably the sine qua non of welfare risk management – is incompatible. Through a mixture of theological, legal, and scientific argument, this paper examines the level of protection Shechita receives as a manifestation of belief, with particular reference to developments in Australia and New Zealand.
