Development of tourism on waterways connecting Hungary and Serbia

The Department for Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management at the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad (DGTH) is a partner of the WATERTOUR project within the program of cross-border cooperation between Serbia and Hungary.

The aim of the project is to promote nautical tourism, cultural heritage and the common traditions of Hungary and Serbia. Furthermore, the members of the project will explore natural resources and social values of the Tisa, along with the natural and artificial waterways within the Tisa basin.

– The plan is also to develop a common marketing strategy for the cross-border region, which will formulate ideas for the implementation of common marketing activities on a regional level. The implemented nautical tourism programs will serve as models which can later be developed. By promoting nautical tourism and strengthening the tourist potential of the settlements along the Tisa, as well as by implementing the results of the project in practice, the program will contribute to enhancing the regional-integrative role of the rivers in the Pannonian Plain – it is said on the sremturizam website.

The project will solidify the geostrategic position of this area and help prepare a full integration of Serbia in the EU. Team members from the DGTH are professors Imre Nadj, Andjelija Ivkov-Dzigurski and Aleksandra Dragin and associate professor Miroslav Vujicic. The other partners of the project are the Institute for Physical Education and Sport Science, the Institute of Applied Social Sciences and Minority Policy, the Institute for Applied Sciences, the Department for Economic and Social Geography (University of Szeged, Hungary) and the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education and the Teacher Training Faculty in the Hungarian Language in Subotica (University of Novi Sad).

The project began in May 2018.

The total budget of the project is half a million euros. Several working meetings have been held so far, as well as the opening conference in Szeged, five workshops in Hungary and Serbia and a professional trip on the Tisa in the Hungarian territory, which involved numerous participants from both states (scientists, business people, journalists, students and local populace).

Prirodno matematički fakultet Novi Sad

Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja Novi Sad

Učiteljski fakultet na mađarskom nastavnom jeziku Subotica

Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad

Institute for Physical Education and Sport Science

Institute of Applied Social Sciences and Minority Policy

Institute for Applied Sciences

Department for Economic and Social Geography at the University of Szeged

Faculty of Sports and Physical Education in Subotica

Teacher Training Faculty in the Hungarian Language in Subotica at the University of Novi Sad

Imre Nadj

Andjelija Ivkov Dzigurski

Aleksandra Dragin

Miroslav Vujicic

WATERTOUR

Serbia Hungary cross border cooperation

nautical tourism

cultural heritage

Department for Geography Tourism and Hotel Management at the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad

DGTH