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Community Role in Heritage Management and Sustainable Turism Development: Case Study of the Danube Regionin Serbia

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Community Role in Heritage Management and Sustainable Turism Development: Case Study of the Danube Regionin Serbia
 
Creator TERZIĆ, Aleksandra; Researcher, Department of Social Geography, Geographical Institute ‘Jovan Cvijić’ of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, Belgrade, Serbia
JOVIČIĆ, Ana; PhD student, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
SIMEUNOVIĆ-BAJIĆ, Nataša; Assistant professor, Faculty of Culture and Media, Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia
 
Subject community participation, cultur-al heritage, tourism, sustainable development, Danube region.
 
Description Destinations and cultural resources that are used and respected by both residents and tour-ists are the ultimate goal of sustainable tourism development. The sustainable tourism as an emerging paradigm seems to enhance the exist-ing conceptual frameworks on tourism planning and development by making the residents its focal point. In that sense, opinions and attitudes of residents on the protection of cultural heritage and the possibilities of tourism development in their environment are very important. The Dan-ube region in Serbia is recognized as a region of high quality natural characteristics and cultural resources which gives an outstanding opportuni-ty for tourism development. The purpose of the study is to examine the current state of the heri-tage management in the Danube region in Serbia and to outline the tourism development potentials of the area. The objective of the study is to ex-amine the role of the local communities in these aspects.  The methods used in the study were a public opinion survey, a focus group interview of 12 experts and the evaluation of the sustainable cultural tourism development indicators. The results have shown that local population in the Danube region in Serbia has, in general, a posi-tive opinion and initial enthusiasm when it comes to tourism development, but their role is margin-alized in the process. This is the key proposition to start an initiative for the local communities to actively participate in tourism development.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor This study is part of scientif c project Ge-ography of Serbia (47007) f nanced by the Ministry of Educa-tion, Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia.
 
Date 2014-12-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/420
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2014: Special Issue; 183-201
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/420/410
 
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