The Role of Natural Resources in the Ecotourism Development - Residents' Perceptions in Subotica (Northern Serbia)

Aleksandra Vujko,Marko D Petrović,Milan Radovanović,Danica Gostović,Darko Vuković

doi:10.32725/det.2018.016

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International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.

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The term “sustainability” has many meanings and contents and relying on the views of the authors who dealt recently with this topic (Bacsi, 2017; Jojić Glavonjić, Todorić, Doljak, & Golubović, 2017; Vujko, Plavša, Petrović, Radovanović, & Gajić, 2017)
The subject of this paper is to present a resource basis for the development of ecotourism in protected natural areas, and to improve the tourism offer of the City of Subotica
What is possible to present as important chances for further development of tourism is certainly the development and placement of new forms of tourism, in this case ecotourism, as well as the involvement of the local community, which enables new jobs and a better standard of living

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The term “sustainability” has many meanings and contents and relying on the views of the authors who dealt recently with this topic (Bacsi, 2017; Jojić Glavonjić, Todorić, Doljak, & Golubović, 2017; Vujko, Plavša, Petrović, Radovanović, & Gajić, 2017). Between several approaches to sustainable tourism (Bacsi, 2017; Petrović, Vujko, Gajić, Vuković, Radovanović, Jovanović & Vuković, 2018), there is some approaches that outline its relationship with ecotourism (Ocampo, Ebisa, Ombe & Esco, 2018), following the definition set by Blangy and Wood According to the 2011 census, the City of Subotica has a population of 97.910 inhabitants while the urban area of Subotica (with adjacent urban settlement of Palić included) has 105.681 inhabitants. It is located 10 km from the Serbian border with Hungary and covers an area of 1,008 km, includes the territories of the Subotica town and 18 surrounding villages. Subotička peščara is located just along the border between Serbia and Hungary (Fig. 1)

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