Exploring the Potential for Speleotourism Development in Eastern Serbia

Tomić, Nemanja; Antić, Aleksandar; Marković, Slobodan B.; Đorđević, Tijana; Zorn, Matija; Valjavec, Mateja Breg

doi:10.1007/s12371-018-0288-x

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“…Tourism potential supports priority for tourism investments at both regional and district levels [36,[49][50][51]. The development of tourism in the Central Highlands is challenged by several factors.…”

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“…The results of district-wide tourism areas range from 0 to 53. The potential is classified into 5 levels: "no potential" (evaluation scores 0-10), "low potential" (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20), "medium potential" (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30), "high potential" (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40), and "very high potential" (40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53). Figure 5 shows the zones according to their tourism potential.…”

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Multicriteria Evaluation of Tourism Potential in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Combining Geographic Information System (GIS), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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Tourism potential provides an indication for the tourism development opportunities of regions and sites. This paper deals with a multicriteria evaluation of the tourism potential in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The study area is located in the Southeast Asian monsoon tropical climatic zone, and offers both natural and cultural tourism resources. GIS-based cost distance analysis was used to calculate the travel time along the road and using other transportation networks. Then an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied to determine a weighting coefficient for each criterion in multicriteria evaluation. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was processed next to AHP, allowing combination of the internal and external tourism potentials of the considered sites. Both AHP and PCA approaches were based on a certain number of alternatives, and take multiple criteria and conflicting objectives into consideration. The results show that the Central Highlands have considerable potential for tourism development at 99 potential eco-tourism sites and 45 potential cultural tourism sites. However, the region is now faced with poor tourism infrastructure with low external potential. An improvement of tourism infrastructure, service quality, and strengthened linkages with other tourist sites is indicated to diversify the tourism products and increase the attractiveness of regional destinations.

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Multicriteria Evaluation of Tourism Potential in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Combining Geographic Information System (GIS), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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“…Although Resava Cave is one of the most developed tourist destinations for speleotourism, it is always necessary to continually monitor speleotourism trends throughout the world so that Resava cave can be competitive on the market. The uniqueness of this cave certainly provides a possibility for its recognition on the global speleotourism market (Tomić et al, 2018). Tourism potential represents a great value of the Resava cave and it is necessary to modernise continuously all tourist indicators in order to place this geosite on the high position of the global speleotourist market.…”

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Speleotourism potential and tourist experience in Resava cave

Antić¹

2018

Menadž u hotelijerstvu i turiz

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Resava Cave is a very old cave in Eastern Serbia, authentic and popular, with special geological and geomorphological features that are excellent representatives of the area"s geodiversity. Most of the speleotourism and geotourism potential of this geosite still remains unlocked. This paper provides an analysis of the tourist potential and tourist experience for speleotourism development of Resava Cave. The aim was to explore the speleotourism potential of Resava cave and to determine and compare tourist experience while visiting this cave. The research includes a a survey of tourists who visited Resava Cave during the month of May, 2018. Each respondent was asked a total of sixteen questions related to their social-demographic profile, the evaluation of certain speleotourist indicators and the tourists" personal attitude to their experience in the cave. Results of the paper have shown that the tourism potential is very high and experiences are diverse, but some of them are more present than the others. Sažetak: Resavska pećina je jedinstvena, popularna i veoma stara pećina u istoĉnoj Srbiji, sa posebnim geološkim i geomorfološkim karakteristikama, koji su odliĉni predstavnici geodiverziteta ovog podruĉja. Speleoturizam i potencijal geoturizma ovog geolokaliteta ostaju neotkriveni. U ovom radu je sprovedena analiza turistiĉkih potencijala i iskustva turista za razvoj speleoturizma u Resavskoj pećini. Cilj je istraţiti potencijal za razvoj speleoturizma ove pećine i odrediti i uporediti iskustva turista tokom posete Resavske pećine. Istraţivanje je realizovano putem anketiranja turista koji su posetili pećinu tokom maja meseca 2018. godine. Svakom ispitaniku je postavljeno po šesnaest pitanja koja se odnose na njihov socio-demografski profil, evaluaciju odreĊenih speleoturistiĉkih indikatora i izraţavanje liĉnog stava o turistiĉkom iskustvu u pećini. Rezultati rada pokazali su da je turistiĉki potencijal veoma visok i da su iskustva razliĉita, ali neka od njih su više zastupljena od drugih.

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“…It combines the opinion of both sides, tourists and experts, in such a way that neither side is favoured in the assessment process. It has been successfully tested and applied numerous times for the assessment of various geosites (Antić, Tomić, 2017;Boškov et al, 2015;Božić et al, 2014;Božić, Tomić, 2015;Tičar et al, 2018;Tomić et al, 2015;Tomić et al, 2019;Vukoičić et al, 2018;Antić et al, 2019).…”

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“…It is necessary to continually monitor speleotourism trends throughout the world so that caves in Serbia can be competitive on this market. The uniqueness of these caves certainly provides a possibility for their exploration and recognition (Tomić et al, 2019).…”

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Speleological approach for geotourism development in Zlatibor county (West Serbia)

Vuković¹,

Antić²

2019

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Western Serbia is a part of the Dinaric karst, which makes this area rich with caves, karst springs, karst waterfalls and other karst phenomena. Caves in the Zlatibor county, as representative speleological geosites, are one of the first established tourist caves in Serbia. They have great potential for speleotourism and geotourism development in the region and are considered important for tourism development of Zlatibor mountain. In this paper we analyze the speleological potential for geotourism development in Zlatibor county (west Serbia). The main goal of the paper was to determine the current state of speleotourism in Zlatibor county and possibilities for further development by analyzing two caves in this area: Stopića cave and Potpećka cave. Our research was carried out by applying the Modified Geosite Assessment Model (M-GAM). The results show that these caves are not just favourable geosites with great complementary tourism potential of the Zlatibor mountain, but they are also unique speleological objects with vast speleotourism and geotourism development opportunities.

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Exploring the Potential for Speleotourism Development in Eastern Serbia

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Multicriteria Evaluation of Tourism Potential in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Combining Geographic Information System (GIS), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Multicriteria Evaluation of Tourism Potential in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: Combining Geographic Information System (GIS), Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Speleotourism potential and tourist experience in Resava cave

Speleological approach for geotourism development in Zlatibor county (West Serbia)

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