Ecotourism can be defined as responsible travel to natural areas that
conserves the environment and cultural heritage and improves the well-being
of local people. Sustainable planning and management of ecotourism
development are important and necessary for increasing positive and
decreasing negative effects on the complex environment. This paper analyses
the suitability of selected protected natural areas in the Serbian Danube
region for the purposes of ecotourism development. The multi-criteria
analysis includes several natural and socio-economic factors and criteria
which influence ecotourism development. The integration of Geographic
Information System (GIS) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) greatly
facilitates the decision-making process in the ecotourism destination
planning. A suitability map of the analysed protected natural areas for
ecotourism development as one of the sustainable tourism types is highlighted
as a result of this paper. Such analysis assists in the objective promotion
of ecotourism destinations and thus contributes to the improvement of Serbian
tourism development. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
176008]
Geotourism is a relatively new form of tourism with considerable European and global growth potential. Interest in geotourism is developing at a very rapid rate around the world. It is of great importance to support and enhance the global movement about geotourism generally and specifically into geoparks. Geoparks are different to other forms of protected areas, such as national parks, nature reserves etc. In this paper focus of the research is on quantitative assessments of the exceptional values of geoheritage for the science, education and tourism potential use in the area of the potential Geopark Djerdap. Five selected geosites are relevant to evaluate key values for science, education, and tourism with additional consideration given to degradation risk. All the post-assessment findings aim to improve the focus on the ultimate goal of the study, i.e. to justify the synergy between the protection of natural values (geoconservation) and the corresponding activities in the process of managing the development of geotourism in the study area.
The role of seasonality in the sustainability of tourism is multiple and complex. The connection between seasonality and sustainability is even more complex when it comes to protected areas. This connection was investigated on the examples of selected protected mountain areas in Serbia ‒ Kopaonik and Tara National Parks, and Stara planina and Zlatibor Nature Parks. The Gini index was used to measure seasonality, and to show the imbalance in the monthly distribution of the number of tourist overnight stays in the mentioned destinations, in the period 2013‒2021. The research results show that the analyzed protected mountain areas in Serbia have different values of the Gini index, which is conditioned by their natural predispositions for tourism development (e.g. altitude and duration of snow cover), and at the same time the levels of tourist development of the area. In order to reduce the effects of seasonality, in each of the destinations that are the subject of this paper, alternative types of tourism and activities are implemented.
In this paper is presented an example of quantitative evaluation of natural conditions for the agriculture purposes on the territory of Razanj municipality. With assistance of GIS application, are analyzed soil attributes of municipality territory, angles of slopes, expositions of relief and hypsometric attributes. The final result of evaluation is synthesis map of capabilities for the agriculture purpose. As eliminatory factor in this analyses are observed areas under forest vegetation.
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