Nevena Ćurčić

Tourism Destination Competitiveness-between Two Flags

Abstract The study aims to provide a better understanding of destination competitiveness and elements that affect competitive position of a tourism destination. The research is design as a comparative study of Slovenia and Serbia. For analysing a competitiveness of mentioned destinations, the Integrated model of destination competitiveness was used. The results showed that both destinations are considered to be more competitive in its natural, cultural, and created resources, but less competitive in the destination management and, according to the Integrated model, demand conditions. Based on these findings, relevant proposals are made in order to improve competitive positions of destinations.

REGENERATION OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Industrial heritage is a specific form of heritage of human society, which emerged as the product of industrialisation, i.e. as the by-product of deindustrialisation of the society, when certain objects were abandoned. In Vojvodina encountered numerous areas of industrial heritage some of which date from the 18th century. The aim of the research is to find ways to preserve existing industrial heritage regeneration through tourism, to propose the development of tourism activities on the sites, individual buildings or entire landscapes, and at the same time through the placement of industrial heritage tourism generates economic productivity. The paper used a comparative method, analysis and synthesis, application of the concept of sustainability. In this sense, the industrial heritage tourism in Vojvodina would define interesting new combination of quality tourism products to the preservation and promotion of regional identity and authenticity of partial elements, with the removal of prejudices towards unusableness old industrial zones.

TOURISMOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SPORTING EVENTS

Sporting events are programs, which are dominated by creative and complex facilities, primarily sports, but also recreation and entertainment. As such, they achieve tourism effects and goals and have a socio-economic importance for the city, region or state. Depending on the size and importance of sports event, sport has a different role in the context of promoting tourist destination, as well as different values. Each sport discipline has its own criteria by which athletes are ranked individually or as team. The subject of the research is to determine the criteria for the categorization of sporting events, in order to determine the importance of sporting events as an element of the tourist offer (individually or as part of a tourist destination). Also, this paper’s results present a comparative analysis of similar methodologies for the categorization of sporting events. Based on the research presented in the paper, there are four groups of criteria: economic, media, social and environmental. Together with this, paper gives the classification of traditional sporting events in the case of Serbia, dividing them in four groups.

INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF NOVI SAD IN THE FUNCTION OF INDUSTRIAL TOURISM: THE CREATION OF NEW TOURIST PRODUCTS

The contemporary developments of tourism inthe last twenty years pointed tonew direction sand types of tourism, one of which is industrial tourism. Novi Sad as an industrial center of the Autonomous Provinceof Vojvodina has opportunities for development of tourism industry based on industrial heritage. The industrial heritage is put forward in order to create tourist flows and in many cases it acts as a catalyst for tourism policy and development. Novi Sad industry is mainly located in the industrial zones and has experienced in the seventies and eighties of the 20 th century in the great migration of the said zones, with the significant reconstruction of existing and construction of new capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify the industrial heritage resources for the development of industrial tourism in Novi Sad, and clearly determine their spatial distribution as well as connectivity options and the creation of new tourism products of Novi Sad.