1Prirodno-matematički fakultet,
Departman za Geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo, Novi Sad
SKIING ON GLACIERS – A MODERN TREND OF ACTIVE HOLIDAYS AND EXTREME SPORTS CHALLENGES
SKIJANJE NA GLEČERIMA – SAVREMENI TREND AKTIVNOG ODMORA I EKSTREMNIH SPORTSKIH IZAZOVA
Sport Mont 2012, X(34-35-36), 83-88
Skiing on the glaciers has emerged as one more of the prominent and interesting
representatives of unusual and relatively young extreme discipline. His appearance has
reflected at the same time on the direction of the tourist group, which are rightfully
called the adrenaline lovers or adventurers (in the broadest sense). All this has
contributed to expanding the current tourism and sports exploited space, stirring the
limits of human movement high, ie. deep in the untouched area of permafrost. In the
paper are noted the facts of the genesis of the glacier, the conditions that prevailing at
this height (ie. improvised tracks), and of numerous effects that the presence of visitors
leave on this particularly sensitive and specific eco-system. In the framework of the
paper was conducted a research about the possible interest and awareness of domestic
tourists (in the area of Novi Sad) for this kind of active rest. The idea was to present
data which suggest to a certain conclusions on these issues, with the aim of
determining the relationship of citizens of Serbia to the current trends in the field of
sports and recreational tourism (having in mind the objective possibility of taking an
participate in the category of special travel arrangements, material restrictions and
difficulties in implementation of the same by the tour).
A general task of the paper was to draw the attention of respondents to the
chosen topic indirectly, and that among the educated and professionally qualified
persons from the world of sports and tourism, additionally promote the new direction
of global interest in the domain of extreme and adventure sports. Viewed from another
aspect, it is about desire to foster thinking on the possibilities and purposes of further
commercialization of worldwide trend in our area (at a higher level than the existing
one). skiing, glaciers, active rest, sport and recreation, extreme sport
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