Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2101177p
Milena Podovac
{"title":"Comparative analysis of urban tourism offer of Belgrade and Sofia","authors":"Milena Podovac","doi":"10.5937/megrev2101177p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2101177p","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a comparative analysis was conducted of the tourist offer of the cities Belgrade (Republic of Serbia) and Sofia (Republic of Bulgaria), which are recognizable as urban tourist destinations on the tourist market. The basic elements used to compare the tourist offer of the mentioned cities are their qualitative and quantitative characteristics. Qualitative characteristics refer to natural features, transport infrastructure, tourism resources and associated facilities, which are significant for the urban tourism development. Quantitative characteristics include tourist traffic ( total number of tourist arrivals and overnight stays) and population. The objectives of the comparative analysis are to identify best practices in the development of this form of tourism and ways and measures to improve the position of Belgrade and Sofia on the tourism market. The results of the comparative analysis showed that both of analyzed cities have a developed offer of urban tourism.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70992492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2102141l
Sofija Lolić, Julijana Račić
{"title":"The importance and role of legal sciences in resolving the problems of missing persons in armed conflicts in the former SFRY and AP KiM","authors":"Sofija Lolić, Julijana Račić","doi":"10.5937/megrev2102141l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2102141l","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the authors accentuate constitutional and legislation governing human rights through the issue of missing persons in armed conflicts in the period from 1992 to 2000. At the same time, it contains statistical data on the reported international Committee in so-called closed cases, open cases, cases closed since the beginning of 2020, the persons presumed to be dead but whose remains are assumed. They have not yet been found and returned to families, whose fate is still unknown, about the persons who are known to be alive, found by the persons identified and submitted to families, and finally cases that are closed for administrative reasons. The need to be adopted by the Law on Persons who have disappeared during the armed conflict. What was preceded by this work were two decades without an answer to the question of what happened to the missing persons on the territory of the SFRY, with special reference to KiM.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70992902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2103035c
T. Cvetkovski, Violeta Cvetkovska-Tomanović
{"title":"Digital Communication: Convenience or necessity of modern tourism?","authors":"T. Cvetkovski, Violeta Cvetkovska-Tomanović","doi":"10.5937/megrev2103035c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2103035c","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the role of digital communication in the tourism sector. The aim is to determine whether the use of digital communications is only an available opportunity or a necessity imposed by a new generation of travelers (the so-called Millennials and Generation Z) and new circumstances coused by the coronavirus pandemic. Communication and today digital communication are an important aspect of our lives. People use the Internet to do business, socialize, inform, share their impressions, to shop. The way people travel is changing as well. They look for information about touristic destination and products online, assess impressions of those who have already visited destinations or happenings and stayed in specific accommodation. Then they book transportation and accommodation on-line via websites and platforms. The tourism sector is information intensive and this is why digital communication is important for this sector. Some quickly got used to the new reality and began to use all the opportunities provided by the new digital technology, while some found it harder to accept. Until the beginning of 2020. tourism become one of the fastest-growing economic sectors in the world, and steady growth would certainly continue but corona virus pandemic happened and everything has stopped. The corona virus pandemic has set new requirements for the tourism sector and is already dictating new ways of doing business. Through various statistical and other data used in the paper, we will see that at the beginning the usage of digital technology and digital communication in the tourism sector was something that existed as a possibility but today this is a necessity of modern business.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70993197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2103111k
N. Krstić
{"title":"Corporate responsibility towards children: The state of affairs in Bulgaria","authors":"N. Krstić","doi":"10.5937/megrev2103111k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2103111k","url":null,"abstract":"Child-centred corporate responsibility has significantly evolved in the 21st century. Starting from banning child labour and restricting the advertising of unhealthy food and drinks, through corporate philanthropy, understanding and assessing the overall impact that the business sector can have on children throughout the value chain: in the workplace, marketplace, community and environment. Despite the advanced practice of adopting the \"National Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy\" and the commitment of the business sector to corporate responsibility in functional, organisational and budgetary terms, the opportunity to integrate children's rights into the strategies and policies of the state, and procedures and practices of the business sector in Bulgaria is missing. The paper gives an overview of how to enhance the National Strategy and expand the priority areas of corporate responsibility for the business sector to systemically improve children's rights in the business principles of responsible companies. As a result, it would allow monitoring the Bulgarian business sector's impact on the full range of children's rights, which is vital for a country facing a gloomy demographic picture and unmet labour market needs.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70993263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2103189m
Ivana Mirevska
{"title":"The fight against corruption and social context","authors":"Ivana Mirevska","doi":"10.5937/megrev2103189m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2103189m","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author tried to present the project of combating corruption in Serbia, starting from the theoretical definition and classification of this social phenomenon. Arguments are also provided proving that, in addition to good strategy and legal solutions, the effects in the fight against corruption also requires the establishment of a social climate in which zero tolerance for corruption will develop. The difficulty, on a global scale, is the fact that neoliberal capitalism encourages illegal activity, legitimizing it by the general rules of the free market. Bearing in mind that the provisions of the Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency also point to the prevention of corruption, the author has tried to answer the question to what extent the prevention designed here can prevent corruption, especially when it comes to those aspects that citizens in everyday life deal with most commonly encountered. The conclusion of this paper is that apart from suppressing corruption mechanisms, one should also take into account the general social situation that generates corruption - namely poverty and social insecurity, that is, suppression of corruption entails a much wider set of measures than anti-corruption laws.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70993313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2103143p
R. Petrović
{"title":"Development of the neoliberal economy in Chile from 1973 to 2020","authors":"R. Petrović","doi":"10.5937/megrev2103143p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2103143p","url":null,"abstract":"In 1973, the Chilean army led by General Augusto Pinochet, with the support of Chilean right-wing formations and the United States, overthrew the world's first democratically elected leftist regime - the regime of Salvador Allende. In addition to strong political reforms, embodied in the banning of the Communist Party of Chile and the persecution of left-wing dissidents, Pinochet immediately began intensive economic reforms inspired by the neoliberal, the so-called shock therapy that originated at the famous Chicago School. The reforms were aimed at dissolving Chile's short-lived socialist legacy, which was reflected in the country's nationalization of land and natural resources, the improvement of workers and trade unions rights, and an accessible health, education and social system. Nationalized goods have been returned to their owners or redistributed to individuals in general, union work has been limited, and the principles of doing business in the market have been extremely liberalized in order to attract as many foreign investors as possible, usually powerful multinational corporations. An important segment of the reforms was the stabilization of the inflation rate. In this paper, we will follow two waves of reforms - from 1973 to 1990 (when Pinochet was overthrown) and from 1990 to 2019, when there were strong riots on the streets of Chile due to the announced increase in subway transportation prices, and in fact, driven by the overall dissatisfaction of citizens with the end effects of reforms - unequal income redistribution, austerity measures, a large number of extremely poor and expensive public services in the fields of education and health. Despite that, we will also point out the positive effects of the reforms - long-term positive macroeconomic trends, high average salary for Latin American conditions, significant inflow of foreign investments, etc. In this paper, we will use the method of analysis and the case study method.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70993416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2104251d
N. Danilovic
{"title":"The institutional mechanism of the European Union","authors":"N. Danilovic","doi":"10.5937/megrev2104251d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2104251d","url":null,"abstract":"This essay deals with institutions of the European Union as a key element of its international legal personality. The European Union, as one of the most important regional international organizations, has a large number of political, advisory, financial and other institutions that support its functioning, which makes the former a true holder of international legal personality, which, thanks to the latter, is completely irrefutable. For this reason, this essay seeks to give an overall analysis of the work and functioning of the institutions, not only for the European Union, but also for the entire international community. Their influence on the entire political and international scene is crucial for a better understanding and functioning of international relations and geopolitical developments.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70994342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2101091g
Nemanja Gogić
{"title":"Greenfield investments as a form of investing in the Serbian economy","authors":"Nemanja Gogić","doi":"10.5937/megrev2101091g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2101091g","url":null,"abstract":"The starting point of the research is to answer the question of whether Green-field investments as a form of investment stimulate Serbia's economic development. The greatest attention is focused on analysis, comparative analysis, statistical analysis, collecting quantitative, qualitative, chronological data and deduction methods. Survey results show that Greenfield investment in the services sector does not bring economic growth and development in the long run. Only Greenfield investments that are invested in the processing sector, and those export-oriented Greenfield companies, can have a positive impact on the economic development of the economy. To attract Greenfield investments, the external environment needs to be improved. The ease and ease of doing business is a positive signal for attracting more investment. Serbia still applies as a country with high corruption, low levels of rules of law, and high levels of administrative procedures, which create a serious barrier to attracting Greenfield investment.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70992114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2101043d
Anđelija Đukić
{"title":"Media framing of human trafficking","authors":"Anđelija Đukić","doi":"10.5937/megrev2101043d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2101043d","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, there has been notably increased engagement of the international community in combating human trafficking, which has also been contributed by the media. The role of the media is reflected in building certain public attitudes and influencing political decision-making. Based on the selected literature, the paper considers the media framing of human trafficking from the 1990s to the present. The media decides on how to approach trafficking, content and causes, information sources, generating and presenting alternative solutions process, as well as motivational procedures for initiating actions of the public and politicians, thus creating diagnostic, prognostic and motivational frames. Based on the research, it is concluded that media frames of human trafficking are not holistic but segmental, and instead of a comprehensive approach, stereotypes are presented in which trafficking is identified with sexual exploitation or considered as the consequence of migration or organized crime actions. This harms the victims, makes the identification of all perpetrators difficult, and narrows the focus of the suppression efforts. It is noted that in the relations between the media, the public and the authorities, in the process of creating a policy and implementing solutions for combating, there are significant influences of policy-makers on media framing, and thus on public attitudes, which provides support and legitimacy of current or future political decisions. In order to illustrate the diversity of media representation of human trafficking, as a COM-plex phenomenon and the possibility of different analyses of media framing, the main findings of several studies in the USA, EU, and Serbia are presented.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70992386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megatrend RevijaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5937/megrev2103001r
Nikola Radić, Vlado Radić, M. Stevanovic
{"title":"Economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic on tourism and hospitality","authors":"Nikola Radić, Vlado Radić, M. Stevanovic","doi":"10.5937/megrev2103001r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/megrev2103001r","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented problems, both economically and organizationally, healthily and socially. Among the most affected industries are tourism and hospitality. The introduction of quarantine, the inability to travel and the restriction of movement, as well as the decline in interest, have led to enormous financial losses for hotels and restaurants around the world, and redundancies. The connection between tourist organizations, carriers and hotels was suddenly severed, so that the entire tourist season in 2020 failed. When you look at the assumptions about the recovery of the tourism industry, it is obvious that the situation is not good, it is even devastating. The multi-year trend of progress and development, which brought in large incomes and employed millions of people around the world, was interrupted. It will not be possible to return to the level from 2019 for at least a year or two, so different scenarios are mentioned, from moderate to pessimistic. In that sense, the biggest loss will be the dismissal of more than 100 million employees in the sector worldwide, as well as the large losses of airlines and carriers. Since the losses are almost irreparable, agencies, hotels, restaurants, airlines and tour operators have sought the help of their governments, in order to overcome the catastrophic situation to some extent. First, assistance was offered to airlines in America and Europe, and later in Asia (South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia). Later, with the apparent extension of the pandemic, governments began to consider the need to provide funds for the financial consolidation of hotels, restaurants and tour operators. That support varies from country to country, from company to company.","PeriodicalId":55747,"journal":{"name":"Megatrend Revija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70993075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}