Attitudes of experts from Novi Sad on the use of the authentic setting of the Petrovaradin fortress as the venue for the exit festival

Besermenji, Snežana; Pivac, Татjana; Wallrabenstein, Ksenija

doi:10.5937/geopan1003092b

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“…Not only that festivals attract the visitors to the venue, but they could also contribute "the creation of a positive image of a destination and they could enhance the tourists' experience and shape the length of their staying" (Besermenji et al, 2010). According to that, when participants were asked if participation in the festival and visiting the city improved their perception of Serbia, 67.7% of them positively and highly rated this attitude, which is one of the main goals of tourism practitioners.…”

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Perceptions of 'Srem Folk Fest' participants according to cultural tourism preferences

Timotijević¹,

Mijatov²,

Sekulić³

2021

Turizam

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"Srem Folk Fest" has become one of the most popular and significant international folklore festivals in this part of the Balkans since 2004. For the past 16 years, a town Sremska Mitrovica was a host city for European, Asian, South American and African youth. Besides its historical importance, this town on the Sava river could also be considered as the promoter of culture, tradition and folklore of its guests. Each year, the artistic stylization of folklore stage is accompanied by about 20000 visitors during the four festival nights. In 2015, "Srem Folk Fest" was added to the calendar of events of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts (CIOFF). The Festival is also recognized by the Serbian National Commission for UNESCO as the keeper of the intangible cultural heritage. One of the main tasks of the paper is related to the need of considering potential and participants' intentions to repeat their visit, as well as of improving the offer and promotion of the town and its surroundings. The aim of the paper is to analyze the data obtained in the context of the behavior and preferences of participants/respondents, to determine the specificity of their role and thus to make a recommendation for creating even better offer. Considering the respondents from 10 countries, the result is especially significant in the form of improving the image of Serbia, as well as their preferences for getting to know rural areas and cultural features. The study contains the survey research, while gained results might provide a good basis for further organization in accordance with their expectations. In addition, the results could also find practical implication in terms of providing basic information necessary to expand this event within the surrounding area of Sremska Mitrovica.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Perceptions of 'Srem Folk Fest' participants according to cultural tourism preferences

Timotijević¹,

Mijatov²,

Sekulić³

2021

Turizam

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“…People in Serbia often referred to the movement as the beginning of the end of Slobodan Milošević's images of places; moreover, cultural and natural landscape features greatly assist how we understand aspects of aesthetic design and/or representation (Arntzen & Brady, 2008;Kirillova, Fu, Lehto, & Cai, 2014;Maitland & Smith, 2009;Strannegård & Strannegård, 2012;Weaver, 2009). It has been acknowledged that aesthetics influence destination choice because people want to experience and gaze at the beauty of natural or cultural landscapes (Andrews, 1989;Barretto, 2013;Besermenji, Pivac & Wallrabenstein, 2010;Colbert, 2002;Ely 2003;Waterton & Watson, 2014). Knudsen et al (see the article in this issue) suggest there is not only a need to construct an understanding of aesthetic concepts based around place and landscape, but it is important to explore how aesthetic meanings are communicated.…”

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Aesthetic Awareness and Spectacle: Communicated Images of Novi Sad (Serbia), the Exit Festival, and the Petrovaradin Fortress

Wise¹,

Mulec²

2015

Tourism Review International

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More research and discussion is needed to understand how destination image and awareness links to aesthetic portrayals. Representations of image, awareness, and aesthetics are embedded in textual content, and the narratives portrayed offer valuable meaning that is open to interpretation. Newspaper articles and websites play a crucial role in creating and presenting new images of places to international audiences. While image is certain, what is often overlooked in textual sources are discussions addressing the importance of aesthetics, which also link to destination image and awareness. The city of Novi Sad, Serbia represents a unique case given the location of the city's popular music event, the Exit Festival, which attracts youths from across the former Yugoslavia, Europe and the world and has contributed to a new image of Serbia. Moreover, the event's unique setting, held in the Petrovaradin Fortress on the banks of the Danube River overlooking Novi Sad, is described in relation to historical/cultural ambiance, and aesthetic attributes. Sources analyzed stressed the beauty of Novi Sad and the festival venue, but mere notions of spectacle could not be ignored. Discussions of image, awareness, and aesthetic dimensions presented in newspaper content and websites are analyzed in this article to understand how the festival textual content challenges us to re-create place meanings of Serbia.

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“…Due to the negative political developments, Serbia has acquired a negative image as a tourist destination (Howard, Allen, 2008). Therefore, tourism should be focused on creating a positive image and strive to increase the volume of the tourist traffic through a greater supply of qualitative and quantitative variables -the better development of different types of tourism through the selective affirmation of natural, anthropogenic and cultural content, and better management of these resources (Jovicic, 2008;Besermenji et al, 2009;Stetic, Simicevic, 2008;Stojanovic, Stamenkovic, 2008;Ivkov-Dzigurski et al, 2008;Ivkov et al, 2007;Dragin et al, 2007;Besermenji et al, 2010).…”

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Integrated model of destination competitiveness

Armenski¹,

Marković²,

Davidovic³

et al. 2011

Geogr Pannon

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The aim of this paper is to determine the weakest point of Serbian destination competitiveness as a tourist destination in comparation with its main competitors. The paper is organised as follows. The short introduction of the previous research on the destination competitiveness is followed by description of the Integrated model of destination competitiveness that was used as the main reference framework. Section three is devoted to the description of the previous studies on competitiveness of Serbian tourism, while section four outlines the statistical methodology employed in this study and presents and interprets the empirical results. The results showed that Serbia is more competitive in its natural, cultural and created resources than in destination management while, according to the Integrated model, Serbia is less competitive in demand conditions that refer to the image and awareness of the destination itself.

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Attitudes of experts from Novi Sad on the use of the authentic setting of the Petrovaradin fortress as the venue for the exit festival

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Perceptions of 'Srem Folk Fest' participants according to cultural tourism preferences

Perceptions of 'Srem Folk Fest' participants according to cultural tourism preferences

Aesthetic Awareness and Spectacle: Communicated Images of Novi Sad (Serbia), the Exit Festival, and the Petrovaradin Fortress

Integrated model of destination competitiveness

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