Agrarian cooperatives are still in a period of transition. Practice shows that it is necessary to reconsider the business activities performed in the sector. Under the 2015 Cooperatives Act, rural tourism was recognised as a business activity, but the legal move has had no practical implications. In order to identify opportunities for the revitalisation of rural tourism, a study has been carried out based on interviews with the general managers of agrarian cooperatives. Their views have been analysed to gauge their awareness of the effects of rural tourism on rural areas arising from the operation of cooperatives, and the potential of human resources to implement the consequent organisational changes. In addition, the potential of agrarian cooperatives has been explored in the context of external surroundings. The results of the research have shown that the general managers view positively the revitalisation of rural tourism as part of the operation of the cooperatives, and that they are aware of the favourable impacts of tourism on rural areas, but that incompetence of the staff in the cooperatives has been a main obstacle to such a development.
The aim of this article is to identify the active tourism clusters in the Republic of Serbia, their structure, the degree of activity of cluster members, and the area of their operation. Therefore, based on a survey of the attitudes of tourism cluster members in the Danube region, their contribution in increasing the competitiveness of the rural tourism destinations was analyzed. Porter’s competitiveness model (“diamond model”) was used to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the rural areas of the Danube region as potential tourism destinations.
In order to provide the best possible healthcare, managers need effective methods for decision making, as well as effective methods for management and improvement of a healthcare organization. Analysis of the demand is one of the key issues in healthcare organizations in that provides a reliable basis for efficient planning of future activities, of necessary material and financial and human resources. The main aim of this paper is to present the practical implementation of various quantitative methods in order to improve planning and organization of ambulance stations in Serbia. The results of detailed statistical analyses show that demand for emergency medical services follows some hourly, daily and monthly patterns. Observed regularities of the demand should be incorporated in operational, tactical and strategic plans of healthcare organizations in order to improve efficiency and achieve optimal allocation of scarce resources.
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