Ivana Damnjanović
Ivana Damnjanović is a sustainable tourism expert with a decade of experience currently serving as vice-dean for international cooperation at the Faculty of Health and Business Studies, Singidunum University, Serbia. Dr Damnjanović advocates enhanced student educational experiences through “the proliferation and transferability of teaching methods and applicability of the acquired knowledge”.
Dr Damnjanović’s academic interests include community well-being; wellness through recreation, adventure, and nature-based tourism; regenerative tourism; sustainable tourism in protected areas; and tourist experiences, storytelling, interpretation, and their educational aspects.
She is a Global Sustainable Tourism Council member, a Transformational Travel Council Herald, a Planet Happiness Ambassador, a Future of Tourism Coalition signatory, and is active in IUCN WCPA TAPAS Group.
Ivana has also written for The “GT” Travel Blog.
To pursue a strategy of tourism industry growth or degrowth is a destination-by-destination question, argues Ivana Damnjanović in her second “Good Tourism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] We live on a finite planet. We only have one. We use up all that it provides us much faster than it can replenish itself. Travel, […]
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Sustainable tourism expert and educator Ivana Damnjanović is passionate about travel, stories, and education; so much so that she thinks that they could be the source of, framework for, and means to happiness. It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. Travel & tourism has long been considered a magic box that brings certain profit. No matter how […]
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