What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Vujičić, Miroslav D.; Stamenković, Igor; Stankov, Uglješa; Kovačić, Sanja; Vasiljević, Đorđije A.; Popov-Locke, Jasmina

doi:10.5937/gp24-22613

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“…The highest mean values of answers are related to the following statements: Novi Sad acts as a pleasant place to live, has a good gastronomic offer, is an attractive place for education and People are kind and hospitable (items with an average value over 4.20). This is an expected finding, considering that Novi Sad is a university city, known for its friendly population, a good gastronomic offer that was created under the influence of the multicultural environment of the city, as well as a medium-sized city pleasant for the life of citizens (Vujičić et al, 2020). Besides, current findings showing generally high mean scores (around 4) for assessment of the city as a place that isan attractive tourist destination and has an interesting architecture could be associated with previous one (Stylidis et al, 2016) that indicates residents' appreciation for the environment that is aesthetically appealing, which, as such, contributes to their better performance of daily activities.Another similarity exists with previous studies that indicated high locals' perception of the friendly environment of their residing place or country (Henkel et al, 2006).…”

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Impact of the European Capital of Culture project on the image of the city of Novi Sad: The perception of the local community

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Nowadays, the research focus is mainly on how tourists perceive the destination image, while the local community, as a very important key actor, is very often neglected in the studies. In light of the fact that Novi Sad has been declared the European Capital of Culture 2021, great attention has been placed on the local community and its perception of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) influence on all aspects of the city's life, including city image. In this regard, during April and May 2018, a survey of residents of Novi Sad was conducted to explore their perception of the city's image - cognitive, affective, and overall. Moreover, the paper is focused on identifying the differences in the image perception on the basis of the respondents' socio-demographic characteristics. In this study, which is the beginning of a longitudinal study aiming to follow the influence of the ECoC project on the city image, a total of 797 respondents participated. The results of the research on the cognitive image indicate that the local community mostly agrees with the claims that Novi Sad is a pleasant place to live in, that it has a good gastronomic offer, is an attractive place for education, and that people are kind and hospitable. On the other hand, the smallest degree of agreement is observed with claims which refer to the living standard in the city. When it comes to tourism and culture, significant differences are observed between individual attributes. Also, research on the affective image shows that the city is perceived as relaxing, pleasant, exciting, and lively. The paper also shows that residents sociodemographic characteristics (age, education, monthly income, employment status) influence the image perception.

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confidence: 71%

Impact of the European Capital of Culture project on the image of the city of Novi Sad: The perception of the local community

Kovačić¹,

Vujičić²,

Čikić³

et al. 2021

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“…Given a pairwise comparison, the AHP analysis involves three tasks: 1) developing a comparison matrix at each level of the hierarchy starting from the second level and working down, 2) computing the relative weights for each element of the hierarchy, and 3) estimating the consistency ratio (CR) to check the consistency of the judgment (Božić et al 2018;Vujičić et al 2020). If the consistency ratio (CR) is less than 0.10, the result is sufficiently accurate and there is no need for adjustments in comparison or for repeating the calculation.…”

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Does geosite interpretation lead to conservation? A case study of the Sićevo Gorge (Serbia)

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People have appreciated the beauty of natural landscapes, the result of the interplay of different natural processes, for at least three hundred years in Europe. Many have been inspired by this beauty to promote such places for visits by others. Some have understood the importance of individual places visited within the local or regional environmental system. This has led to definitions and the establishment of protected areas with special visitor rules and regulations. This article presents a case study of Sićevo Gorge Nature Park in Serbia and an opportunity to transform it into a geoheritage site, underpinned by developing its interpretation based on the results of a study using the analytical-hierarchy process (AHP) method.

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“…Despite the range of different approaches that have been developed to explain tourist motivations, the push-pull theory tends to be one of the most widely referred to in the tourist motivation literature [48][49][50][51]. Although some authors have begun to reconsider the complex interactions and relationships that exist between push and pull factors [41,[52][53][54], it is generally observed that they relate to two separate tourist decisions made at two separate points in time-one focusing on whether to go or not, and the other on where to go. Therefore, push factors are perceived to be present in the decision-making process before pull factors [55], and as such they are the focus of this research.…”

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Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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Tourist motivation, as a core of travel behavior, significantly influences consumer intentions and has attracted academic attention for decades. A plethora of studies analyse sets of internal and external motivators, while methodologies that exclusively focus on a single factor, such as age, that can sometimes have a determining influence in multi-attraction destinations, are less prevalent. This study introduces a fuzzy logic approach to develop a new model for analysing the internal motivations of different-aged consumers in multi-attraction urban destinations. Fuzzy models, as a mathematical means of representing vagueness and imprecise information, have the capability of recognizing, representing, manipulating, interpreting, and utilizing data and information, which typically for urban tourist motivations, are vague and lack certainty. This research tests the model in a real-life setting, using the example of Novi Sad, a mid-sized European city, which is typical of many similar cities who are attempting to develop sustainable tourism by attracting older tourists. The new model shows how tourist motivations for multi-attraction destinations are affected by age, through a specially developed m-file for MATLAB, so that it can be applied and tested in other tourism contexts. Theoretical and practical implications for sustainable destination management and marketing are described.

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What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Cited by 24 publications

References 112 publications

Impact of the European Capital of Culture project on the image of the city of Novi Sad: The perception of the local community

Impact of the European Capital of Culture project on the image of the city of Novi Sad: The perception of the local community

Does geosite interpretation lead to conservation? A case study of the Sićevo Gorge (Serbia)

Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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