Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia

Tourism in Serbian Spas has a long ongoing tradition. In order to analyze its improvement, it is mandatory to consider several elements of modern life and new changing trends in demand on touristy market, thoroughly regarding today's overall health of human population. In this very paper indica...

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Main Authors: Belij Marija, Milosavljević Jasmina, Belij Jelena, Perak Kristina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Geography, Belgrade 2014-01-01
Series:Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
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Online Access:https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1450-7552/2014/1450-75521462175B.pdf
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Milosavljević Jasmina
Belij Jelena
Perak Kristina
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Perak Kristina
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description Tourism in Serbian Spas has a long ongoing tradition. In order to analyze its improvement, it is mandatory to consider several elements of modern life and new changing trends in demand on touristy market, thoroughly regarding today's overall health of human population. In this very paper indicators of touristic development of Spa centers in Serbia have been analyzed (duration of the stay, index of functionality, the percentage of the occupation of the capacities, and intensity of the touristic turnover) regarding the period of 1981 to 2011. The aim of this paper is to compare changes (trends) and possibly to point to the causes of numerical changes in indicators of touristic development. The results discovered immense oscillations regarding the number of tourists, decrease of bed capacities as well as overall trend in tourists' stay in Spas. New experiences and new trends insist upon changing of traditional standpoint of spas as places of health tourism into destinations with developed other, specific forms of tourism.
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spelling doaj.art-21dd62fdeaa74019a0631484de3a69232022-12-22T02:55:15ZengUniversity of Belgrade - Faculty of Geography, BelgradeZbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu1450-75522334-94412014-01-012014621751961450-75521462175BIndicators of touristic development of spa centers of SerbiaBelij Marija0Milosavljević Jasmina1Belij Jelena2Perak Kristina3Geografski fakultet, BeogradGeografski fakultet, BeogradGeografski fakultet, BeogradTuristička organizacija SrbijeTourism in Serbian Spas has a long ongoing tradition. In order to analyze its improvement, it is mandatory to consider several elements of modern life and new changing trends in demand on touristy market, thoroughly regarding today's overall health of human population. In this very paper indicators of touristic development of Spa centers in Serbia have been analyzed (duration of the stay, index of functionality, the percentage of the occupation of the capacities, and intensity of the touristic turnover) regarding the period of 1981 to 2011. The aim of this paper is to compare changes (trends) and possibly to point to the causes of numerical changes in indicators of touristic development. The results discovered immense oscillations regarding the number of tourists, decrease of bed capacities as well as overall trend in tourists' stay in Spas. New experiences and new trends insist upon changing of traditional standpoint of spas as places of health tourism into destinations with developed other, specific forms of tourism.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1450-7552/2014/1450-75521462175B.pdfindicators of touristic developmenttourismspasSerbia
spellingShingle Belij Marija
Milosavljević Jasmina
Belij Jelena
Perak Kristina
Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
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tourism
spas
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title Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
title_full Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
title_fullStr Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
title_full_unstemmed Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
title_short Indicators of touristic development of spa centers of Serbia
title_sort indicators of touristic development of spa centers of serbia
topic indicators of touristic development
tourism
spas
Serbia
url https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1450-7552/2014/1450-75521462175B.pdf
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