Ecotourism impact assessment on environment in protected areas of Serbia: A case study of Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve

Vladimir Stojanović; Maja Mijatov; Jelena Dunjić; Lazar Lazić; Aleksandra Dragin; Dubravka Milić; Sanja Obradović

doi:10.5937/gp25-32288

Vladimir Stojanović
Maja Mijatov University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management
Jelena Dunjić
Lazar Lazić
Aleksandra Dragin
Dubravka Milić
Sanja Obradović

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/gp25-32288

Keywords: ecotourism, protected areas, impact assessment, experts’ attitudes, nature protection, plant sensitivity, animal sensitivity

Abstract

Ecotourism is a nature-based type of tourism, especially represented within protected areas. No matter the fact, just like the other selective types of this sector, ecotourism might affect the environment. In a process of writing the Visitor Management Plan in the Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve (SNR) in 2019, one part of the study was related to general projection of the ecotourism development impact on eco-educational paths within this SNR. The research was conducted throughout November 2019, in the form of interviews. The sample obtained 12 experts for nature protection, who stated their attitudes on three important topics: tourism in protected areas in general, tourism in the Gornje Podunavlje SNR and ecotourism within three concrete sites: Karapandža, Štrbac and Bestrement.

Author Biography

Maja Mijatov, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

Research Assistant at University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management

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