About the Department
Since 1962, when it was founded by academician Branislav Bukurov, the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management has developed in terms of infrastructure and staff and has become one of the best-known higher education and scientific institutions in the fields of geography, tourism, hotel management and gastronomy in the country and the region . From just one chair at the very beginning of its existence, the Department has grown into a complex, technically highly equipped institution within which there are eight chairs: Chair of Physical Geography, Chair of Social Geography, Chair of Regional Geography, Chair of Tourism, Chair of Hunting Tourism, Chair of Hotel Management, Chair of Gastronomy and Chair of Geoecology. Today, the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management has 85 permanently employed and temporarily employed staff, and for the purpose of the highest quality functioning, 17 part-time professors and lecturers, 12 visiting professors and five postgraduate students are also engaged.
active students in undergraduate studies
active students in master's studies
active students in doctoral studies
The main activities of the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management are teaching-educational, scientific-research and publishing. Initially, the teaching-educational process took place only through undergraduate studies, later through undergraduate, specialist and master's studies, and today, in accordance with the requirements and propositions of the Bologna Declaration, teaching is realized through undergraduate academic, graduate academic-master and doctoral studies. The teaching-educational process is carried out through the synergy of classroom and field teaching and professional practice . This certainly influences the education of higher quality teaching staff in the field of geography during more than 60 years of the Department's existence, i.e. more expert staff in the fields of tourism, hotel management and gastronomy, in the last thirty years of its operation.
defended diploma theses
defended master's theses
defended doctoral dissertations
defended master's theses (pre-Bologna)
defended specialist theses
Years-long scientific-research activity at the Department is realized through the participation of teachers and associates in national (republic and provincial) and international scientific projects, through the organization of scientific conferences and participation in conferences in the country and abroad. More recently, scientific-research activities have been intensified by the active work of established research groups: the Loess Research Group, the Centre for Climatological and Hydrological Research, the Demographic Research Group, the Centre for Spatial Information of Vojvodina, the Regional Geography Group, the Sustainable and Ecotourism Group, the Cultural Tourism Group, the Rural Tourism Group, the Management and Marketing Group and the Ethnotourism and Animation Group. Also, for many years, the Department has devoted significant attention to student researchers, who operate within the Society of Young Researchers "Branislav Bukurov", the entity of the European Geography Association for Students in Novi Sad "EGEA" and the Association of Students of Tourism and Hotel Management "Pavle Tomić".
The Department publishes three scientific journals. The longest tradition, lasting more than 50 years, belongs to the "Researches Review of the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management", which is published in English. For more than 25 years, the international scientific journals "Geographica Pannonica" and "Turizam" have also been published, also in English. Also, it is important to note that from 2001 to 2011, the Department published the popular science magazine "Gea" in Serbian, which during the twelve-year period of its existence gained great popularity, especially among pupils and teachers in primary and secondary schools, both in Vojvodina and throughout Serbia. In addition, researchers of the Department have published a large number of bibliographic units in scientific and professional journals and encyclopedias and participate in numerous scientific conferences with papers in the country and abroad.
