Assistant with PhD

PhD Marija Cimbaljević

marija.cimbaljevic@dgt.uns.ac.rs

Short biography:

Date and place of birth: 02.06.1990, Berane

Marija Cimbaljević completed her bachelor studies in 2013 (study program: Manager, module Tourism) at Department od Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She completed her master studies in 2014, at the same Department. She gained a PhD education degree in the field of Geosciences (Tourism) in 2019, by defending her PhD dissertation entitled: “Possibilities of applying the concept of smart tourism for the improvement of Serbia’s tourism offer”.

Contact

email: marija.cimbaljevic@dgt.uns.ac.rs i maja_0206@hotmail.com

Consultations: Office No. 15

Work positions:

  • 2016 – 2018 – PhD student engaged in teaching
  • 2018 – 2021 – Associate researcher
  • 2021 – Teaching Assistant

Field of scientific research:

  • Information technologies in tourism
  • Smart tourism
  • Tourist experience
  • Cultural tourism

Courses:

Undergraduate studies:

  • Information technologies in tourism
  • Business of travel agencies
  • Cultural tourism
  • Excursion and field trip tourism
  • Basics of digital geography
  • Digital cartography
  • Web Gis

Master’s studies:

  • Management of cultural heritage and cultural tourism
  • Business event management
  • Visualization of geographic data
  • Contemporary trends in the development of geoinformatics

Other important information:

Scholarships and Awards:

  • Award of the University of Novi Sad for academic achievement (2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013)
  • Republic Scholarship of the Ministry of Education of Montenegro (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14)
  • Scholarship of the municipality of Berane for Young Talents (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14)
  • Scholarship of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development for PhD studies (2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018).

Projects:

  • Competitiveness of a tourist destination – evaluation model for Serbia – TOURCOMSERBIA, Project number 7739076, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.
  • Adaptation and promotion of the content of cultural institutions in Vojvodina to sensitive social groups, a project financed by the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development of Vojvodina, 2022.
  • SMARTOUR-SMART Tourism Skills Initiative, ERASMUS KA2-Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, 2022-2025.
  • National project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development: “Transformations of Serbia’s geospace – past, contemporary problems and proposed solutions” (project no. OI176020)
  • Contemporary problems and sustainability of urban settlements in Vojvodina, a project of importance for the development of the scientific research activity of AP Vojvodina for the project cycle 2021‒2024.
  • COST Actions  CA19136 – International Interdisciplinary Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments
  • COST Actions  CA22122 – Rethinking the Blue Economy: Socio-Ecological Impacts and Opportunities

Selected references:

  • Cimbaljević, M., Stankov, U., Pavluković, V. (2018). Going beyond the traditional destination competitiveness – reflections on a smart destination in the current research. Current Issues in Tourism, 22(20), 2472-2477. doi: 10.1080/13683500.2018.1529149
  • Cimbaljević, M., Stankov, U., Demirović, D., Pavluković, V. (2019). Nice and smart: creating a smarter festival – the study of EXIT (Novi Sad, Serbia). Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 26(4), 415-427. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2019.1596139
  • Demirović Bajrami, D., Radosavac, A., Cimbaljević, M., Tretiakova, T. N., Syromiatnikova, Y. A. (2020). Determinants of Residents’ Support for Sustainable Tourism Development: Implications for Rural Communities. Sustainability, 12, 9438, 1-16. doi:10.3390/su12229438
  • Cimbaljević, M., Demirović Bajrami, D., Kovačić, S., Pavluković, V., Stankov, U., Vujičić, M. (2023). Employees’ technology adoption in the context of smart tourism development: the role of technological acceptance and technological readiness. European Journal of Innovation Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/EJIM-09-2022-0516
  • Stankov, U., Gretzel, U., Vujičić, M., Pavluković, V., Jovanović, T., Solarević, M., Cimbaljević, M. (2022). The pandemic of loneliness: designing smart tourism for combating loneliness. Information Technology & Tourism, doi: 10.1007/s40558-022-00234-9
  • Cimbaljević, M., Demirović, D., Vuksanović, N., Milentijević, N., Yamashkin, A. A. (2019). A GIS- based analysis of tourist distribution in Montenegro. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, 69(2), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1902147C
  • Pavluković, V., Cimbaljević, M. (2020). Factors affecting conference participation decision-making. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA,70(1), 31-43.
  • Cimbaljević, M., Nedeljković Knežević, M., Demirović Bajrami, D., Dunjić, M., El Bilali H., & Rančić Demir, M. (2020). How do job-related constructs determine employee turnover? Serbian hotels example. Journal of the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA,70(2), 129-143.
  • Stankov, U., Pavluković, V., Alcantara-Pilar, J.M., Cimbaljević, M., & Armenski, T. (2017). Should Festival Be Smarter? ICT on Mass Events – The Case of the Exit Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia). In Rodrigues, J.M., Ramos, C.M.Q., Cardoso, P.J.S., Henriques, C., (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Technological Developments for Cultural Heritage and eTourism Applications (pp. 245-263). Hershey PA, USA, IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2927-9.ch012
  • Demirović Bajrami, D., Cimbaljević, M., Syromiatnikova, Y.A., Petrović, M.D., Gajić, T. (2023). Feeling ready to volunteer after COVID-19? The role of psychological capital and mental health in predicting intention to continue doing volunteer tourism activities. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 54, 500-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2023.02.009