A delegation from SUSU visited Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia). The goal of the visit was to discuss future joint research in the sphere of tourism, as well as its development in Russia and Serbia.
Within the visit, two meetings were held with scientists of the Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, employees of educational institutions in the sphere of tourism of the Republic of Serbia, leadership of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Belgrade, and administrative staff of National Park Tara.
Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is dealing with issues of physical geography of the region and tourism development at the territory of the Republic of Serbia. As a result of meetings and discussions with the Institute staff, areas of cooperative scientific research in the sphere of active tourism geography, wellness tourism and recreational tourism at the territory of thermal springs, along with their effect on psycho-emotional and physiological state of tourists, were determined.
“We also had a look at research facilities and resources of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Belgrade. The Faculty was founded in 1938, and is one of the oldest at the Balkans. Its library includes research of classicists of sport science of Russian school written in Russian, about which our colleagues had very positive comments. These research works are a basis for research in the sphere of physical education and sport for Serbian scientists. At the meeting we discussed exchange of teaching staff and students majoring in sports,” said Head of the Department of Tourism and Socio-Cultural Service of SUSU’s Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service, Tatiana Tretyakova.
Moreover, SUSU representatives had a meeting with administrative staff of National Park Tara of the Republic of Serbia, and took part in visual inspection of its infrastructure and excursion objects.
In the result of the visit, areas of joint scientific research and directions of sustainable tourism development at specially protected natural reservations, in active tourism areas and at territories with thermal springs were determined. At the present time, joint research articles are planned to be prepared for publishing in high-ranked journals indexed in WoS and Scopus databases.
