Biography

Marina Vesic was born on 24^th of Jun 1988 in Sabac, where she finished the High School (majoring in law). In 2007 she enrolled undergraduate studies in Tourism at Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade. She graduated in 2011 with an average grade of 9.73 and defended her thesis on “Comparative analysis of the potential of border regions of Serbia and Croatia for the development of hunting tourism”. In 2011, Marina enrolled master’s studies, department of Tourismology, from where she successfully graduated in 2012 with an average grade of 10.00. She defended her Master thesis “Current state of the impact of nature protection on the development of tourism in the area of the Golija-Studenica Biosphere Reserve” in 2012. During the final year of undergraduate and master studies, for consecutive two years, Marina was holder of a scholarship from the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia (Dositeja). She enrolled her Ph.D studies in 2012, at the Faculty of Geography in Belgrade, in the study group of Tourism.

Since the November 2012, she has been employed at the Faculty of Geography University of Belgrade, as a trainee researcher based on her engagement in the science project of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia no. 176008 “Development programs for revitalization of Serbian villages”. In Jun 2017, she acquired the title of research associate. Since October 2017, she has been selected as an assistant for the narrower scientific field of Tourism.

So far, Marina participated in several scientific and professional gatherings in the country and abroad.

• 2018: Djerdap National Park: Visitor Management Plan
• National projects financed by Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia (as team member):
• 2012: Development programs for revitalization of Serbian villages no. 176008.

Membership in foreign and domestic associations

• Member of the Serbian Geographical Society
• Member of the promotional team of the Faculty of Geography

1. Belji, M., Ilincic, M. i Belji, J. (2013). Complementarity of the „Roman Emperors Route“ and the section of corridor VII passing through Serbia. International Scientific Conference Cultural Corridor Via Diagonalis – Cultural Tourism Without Boundaries 03.10.2013 – 06.10.2013, pp. 199-209. ISBN 978-954-300-128-6
2. Pecelj, M., Ilinčić, M., Belij, J., Pecelj, D., Pecelj, J. (2014). Geoecological evaluation of the Orlovača cave. Archives for Technical Sciences 10 (1), Technical Institute Bijeljina, pp 79-84.  DOI: 10.7251/afts.2014.0610.079P,  ISSN 1840-4855, e- ISSN 2233-0046, COBISS.RS-ID: 4226840
3. Ilincic, M., Jovicic, D. (2015): Perspectives of cultural tourism the modern tourism market, Glasnik Srpskog geografskog drustva, (95) 1, str. 31-50. DOI: 10.2298/GSGD1501031L
4. Živković, D., Đorđević, T., Ilinčić, M., Petrović, Lj. (2015): Ekonomska struktura stanovništva: u Razvojni potencijali i ograničenja revitalizacije ruralnog prostora centralne Srbije, naučna monografija, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Geografski fakultet, Beograd, str. 197-226. ISBN 978-86-6283-030-2, COBISS.SR-ID 219760396
5. Ilinčić, M. (2016). Banatska peščara viđena okom Borivoja Ž. Milojevića – turizmološki osvrt. Borivoje Ž. Milojević – život i delo. Tematski zbornik radova. Univerzitet u Beogradu Geografski fakultet, Srpsko geografsko društvo, Opština Krupanj, Beograd, 13-14. Maj. str. 389-401. ISBN 978-86-6283-042-5
6. Pavlović, S., Belij, M., Belij, J., Iliničić, M., Mihajlović, B. (2016). Negotin wine region, then and now – the role of tourism in revitalizing traditional winemaking. Anthropological Notebooks, Vol 22, No1, pp 43-57, ISSN: 1408-032X, IF 2015. 0.250
7. Pavlović, S., Ilinčić, M. (2017). Upravljanje kulturnim dobrima – mesto turizma u interdisciplinarnom pristupu. Deveti naučno-stručni skup sa međunarodnim učešćem: „Planska i normativna zaštita prostora i životne sredine“.  Zbornik radova. Asocijacija prostornih planera Srbije, Univerzitet u Beogradu Geografski fakultet, Beograd, str. 283-290. ISBN 978-86-6283-051-7, COBISS.SR-ID 233392140
8. Vesić, M., Živanović, V. (2018). The current state and strategies for development of tourism in the area of exceptional features “Vlasina”. 3rd international thematic monograph – thematic proceedings: Modern management tools and economy of tourism sector in present era, Belgrade, 2018, pp 449-460. Published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, in cooperation with the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Ohrid, Macedonia. ISBN 978-86-80194-14-1 (AEMB); DOI:https://doi.org/10.31410/tmt.2018.449
9. Vesić, M., Pavlović, S. (2018). Zeleni hoteli – trend usaglašen sa interdisciplinarsnošću održivog turizma. Časopis Ecologica, broj 92, str. 760-764.
10. Pavlović, S., Belij, M., Vesić, M., Stanić Jovanović, S., Manojlović, I. (2020). Improvement of the Relationship between Environment and Tourism: Case Study of the National Park Đerdap in Serbia. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 161, 251–270, https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg161s251