Biography

Date and place of birth: 25.05.1985. Kruševac, Serbia

PhD Marija Belij Radin is Assistant professor at University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Serbia (field of research Tourism studies). She has published more than 50 papers in national and international scientific journals. Since the 2018 she has a function of Head of the Department of Tourism, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography.

Education:

2010-2016 – PhD in Geosciences (Tourism) – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography; Thesis: Transformation of spas in Serbia into modern centers of spa and wellness tourism

2008-2009 – M.Sc. in Tourism – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography; Thesis: Spas and recreation centers – form of adjustment of spa tourism of Serbia to the modern market demand

 

2004-2008 – B.Sc. in Geography – University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Thesis: Positioning of Ribarska Spa in spa tourism of Serbia

Employment History:

2017 – present – Assistant Professor (Head of Department of Tourism, October, 2018 – present), University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography

July, 2011 – July, 2017 – Teaching Assistant, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography

October, 2009 – July, 2011 – PhD student engaged in holding practical lectures, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography

Marija Belij Radin is the researcher of project of national importance: Problems and development tendencies geospatial system of the Republic of Serbia. Also she was participating in bilateral project Integrated Approach to Tourism Development in Protected Areas – Experiences of Serbia and Slovenia that was implemented between University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography and Univerza na Primorskem Fakulteta za turistične študije Portorož ­ Turistica (2014-2015). In 2018 she was a member of the Faculty of Geography’s working team for creating the Visitor management plan of the Đerdap National Park.

She participated in the organization of the International Conference „Cultural Corridor Via Diagonalis – Cultural Tourism Without Boundaries” (2013), she was also a member of the organizing committee of the Scientific conference with international participation “Geographic Education, Science and Practice: Development, Status and Perspectives” (2013); 4th SERBIAN CONGRESS OF GEOGRAPHERS “Achievements, current topics and challenges of geographical science and practice” (2015). She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Scientific Conference – Future Tourism conference “Digital transformation in tourism“ (2019) and “Challenges of tourism and business logistics in the 21^st century” (2020).

Awards and honours

• Award from University of Belgrade for excellent success at Faculty in 2008/2009,
• Scholarship from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development for PhD students (2010/11).

Membership in foreign and domestic associations

• Member of the Serbian Geographical Society
• Member of Tourismologist Association of Serbia
• Member of the Association of Spatial Planners of Serbia
• Faculty representative in Cluster of health, spa and wellness tourism of Serbia (2016-present) and Serbian Spa Association (2015-present)

1. Pavlović, S., Belij, M., Vesić, M., Stanić Jovanović, S., Manojlović I. (2019). Improvement of the Relationship between Environment and Tourism: Case Study of the National Park Đerdap in Serbia. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 161, pp. 251–270.
2. Belij, M., Ristova, C. (2019). The role of ecotourism in management of protected areas in Serbia and North Macedonia. Proceedings, Chalanges of tourism and business logistics in the 21st centery, Goce Delcev University of Stip, Faculty of tourism and business logistics, pp. 199 – 210.
3. Đurđić, S., Stojković, S., Belij, M. (2019). The importance of ecotourism in the process of improving ecosystem services in Serbia. Proceedings International Scientific Symposium „New Trends in Geography”. Macedonian Geographical Society, pp. 123 – 132.
4. Belij, M. Đurđić, S. (2019). The role of tourism in the management of protected areas. Book of Proceedings. 10th International Academic Symposium “PLANNED AND NORMATIVE PROTECTION OF SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT”. University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Serbian Spatial Planners Association, pp. 331-337.
5. Todorović, N., Belij, M. (2019). Constraints for domestic tourism demand in Serbia. Contemporary trends in tourism and hospitality, Get ready for iGeneration. Collection of Papers, University of Novi Sad – Faculty of Sciences – Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, pp. 71 – 76.
6. Belij, M., Pavlović. S. (2018). The concept of “green tourism” in protected areas of Serbia. [In Serbian] Ecologica, Vol 25, No 92, pp. 772-776.
7. Belij, M., Đuriđić,S., Stojković, S. (2018). The Evaluation of Geoheritage for Geotourism Development: Case Study on the Potential Geopark Djerdap, Collection of Papers – Faculty of Geography at the University of Belgrade, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 121 – 132
8. Belij, M. (2017). Cultural tourist motives in National parks in Serbia. Tourism in protected areas of nature in Serbia and Slovenia. University of Belgrade Faculty of Geography, Belgrade, pp. 113-128.
9. Anđelković, G., Pavlović, S., Đurđić, S., Belij, M., Stojković, S. (2016). Tourism Climate Comfort Index (TCCI) – An attempt to evaluate he climate comfort for tourism purposes: the example of Serbia. Global NEST Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 482-493.
10. 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, No. 1, pp. 43-57.