1. From Views to Potential Behaviours : The Role of Travel Vlogs and Digital Nudging in Croatian Coastal TourismLidija Nujić Pečenec, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: This study investigates how travel vloggers potentially influence tourist behaviour through digital nudging, focusing on four Croatian coastal cities: Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, and Šibenik. Using qualitative thematic analysis of a purposive sample of English-language YouTube travel vlogs, the research addresses three questions: (1) the types of problems vloggers encounter at the destination, (2) the advice they offer and how it may function as digital nudging, and (3) their motivations for content creation. Findings show that vloggers frequently report issues such as overcrowding, noise, and high prices, often framing these as experiential warnings. Their advice, ranging from strategies to avoid crowds to promoting cultural awareness, could function as informal behavioural guidance. Identified nudging techniques include simplification, framing, priming, loss aversion, and the messenger effect. Vloggers are motivated by audience growth and channel promotion, financial incentives, and informative intent. The study contributes to the growing field of digital nudging by highlighting the potential role of vloggers as informal behavioural influencers in tourism. It bridges behavioural science, tourism studies, and digital media research, showing how peer-generated content on digital platforms could subtly shape tourist behaviour. Practically, the findings suggest that collaboration with vloggers could offer destination management organizations (DMOs) and tourism professionals a scalable, cost-effective method to promote sustainable and culturally sensitive travel behaviours. By embedding incentives in authentic, understandable content, destinations may indirectly address challenges such as overtourism and environmental degradation. Ključne besede: digital nudging, tourism, social media vlogs, tourist behaviour Objavljeno v RUP: 06.03.2026; Ogledov: 64; Prenosov: 7
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2. Case Study : Is Bucharest a Smart Tourist Destination?Luciana Maria Popa, 2025, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Opis: The paper explores the concept of smart tourism in relation to Bucharest, aiming to assess whether the city qualifies as a smart tourist destination. It includes a literature review to define "smart" in the tourism context, a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, with expert interviews from tourism, IT, education, and NGO sectors to understand the role of technology in destination, and a PESTE analysis to identify key challenges and opportunities, for a deeper look at the interview results. The study proposes indicators for evaluating a smart destination and offers practical recommendations. The research provides meaningful insights with strong practical value for tourism decision-makers. It also serves as a foundation for future studies, potentially focusing on the balance between tradition and innovation in the context of smart tourism. Ključne besede: smart tourism, smart tourist destinations, smart cities, agile and resilient destinations Objavljeno v RUP: 04.03.2026; Ogledov: 82; Prenosov: 4
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3. Image-based analysis of tourist destination perceptions : a deep learning and spatial–temporal study in SloveniaDejan Paliska, Aleksandra Brezovec, Gorazd Sedmak, 2026, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: In the context of fierce competition among tourist destinations and increasing difficulty of differentiation, developing a strong destination image is particularly important. A comprehensive understanding of how tourists perceive destinations through user-generated images can help destination management organizations (DMOs) design more effective marketing strategies. This is especially relevant for destinations with spatially and temporally dispersed tourism resources and strong seasonal dynamics. This paper analyses inbound tourist photographs by combining deep learning techniques with spatial analysis to examine the spatial and temporal distribution of photo scenes and shifts in scene preferences among tourists. The study focuses on three distinct types of destinations in Slovenia—urban (Ljubljana), nature-based/alpine (Bled), and coastal (Piran, Izola, Koper)—providing insights into how image-based spatial scene analysis can inform destination marketing strategies. The results reveal significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity of scenes across micro destinations. Nature-based destinations exhibit lower topic entropy and fewer topic changes per user, whereas urban destinations show higher variability, with users changing topics on average five times per day. Seasonal effects are moderate: nature-based destinations display lower topic entropy in winter and higher in autumn and spring, coastal destinations show less pronounced seasonal variation, and urban destinations show almost none. These findings provide valuable insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of tourist interests and offer practical guidance for DMOs in strategic marketing planning. Ključne besede: tourist destination image, user-generated content, deep learning, spatial-temporal analysis, destination marketing strategy Objavljeno v RUP: 18.02.2026; Ogledov: 203; Prenosov: 4
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4. An Innovative Lens on Green Tourism : A Narrative Review of Cognitive Dissonance in Sustainable Tourism DevelopmentKevin Fuchs, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Despite growing concern over sustainability, value–behaviour inconsistencies remain widespread in tourism, highlighting a need for conceptual clarity. Therefore, an inductive thematic synthesis was utilized to analyse how cognitive dissonance is conceptualized, triggered, and resolved across various green tourism contexts. Three thematic main strands emerged: (1) value–behaviour inconsistency, (2) green identity and group influence, and (3) situational constraints and greenwashing. Tourists often maintain a green self-image despite contradictory behaviour, influenced by group norms, destination cues, and infrastructural limitations. The findings highlight that destination managers and marketers must reduce behavioural friction and ensure that sustainability claims are authentic and actionable. Theoretically, the revew contributes a conceptual map of cognitive dissonance in green tourism, highlighting how dissonance emerges and is managed. Ključne besede: cognitive dissonance, green tourism, sustainable tourist behaviour, value–behaviour gap, pro-environmental travel Objavljeno v RUP: 20.01.2026; Ogledov: 208; Prenosov: 0
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5. Code glosses in tourism discourse : a contrastive analysis of Croatian tourist brochures, English originals, and their translationsMarina Peršurić Antonić, 2025, izvirni znanstveni članek Ključne besede: code glosses, metadiscourse, tourist brochures, translation strategies, cross-cultural communication, English as a lingua franca (ELF), persuasiveness in tourism discourse Objavljeno v RUP: 13.01.2026; Ogledov: 242; Prenosov: 5
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7. Erasmus+ mobility : empirical insights into Erasmus+ tourists' behaviourMiha Lesjak, Emil Juvan, Eva Podovšovnik, 2020, izvirni znanstveni članek Opis: Erasmus+ students represent a large sub-segment of educational tourists, making this segment an attractive market for universities as well as destination marketing organisations. Unfortunately, very little is known about Erasmus+ students' travel behaviour; hence the present study aims at extending empirically supported knowledge about travel behaviour of students during their Erasmus+ mobility. Data was collected via an online survey among all Erasmus+ enrolling students in the academic year 2016/17 in Slovenia. The results show that 93% of the participants travelled during theirmobility. The level of studies aswell as gender affect students' travel behaviour, making the two characteristics immediately useful attributes when targeting Erasmus+ travellers. Based on perceived destination attributes, male students predominantly seek cities with attractive nightlife but female students look for easily accessible cities, which are safe and offer attractive cultural sites. These findings suggest that tourism providers, destination tourism organisations and universities should work hand in hand when designing personalised tourism experiences and their promotion among Erasmus+ students. This is crucial during the phase of planning Erasmus+ mobility, when students choose their destination and host university, as well as during students' Erasmus+ mobility, because Erasmus + students travel during their student mobility. Ključne besede: Erasmus+ mobility, education, international students, destination attributes, tourist behaviour Objavljeno v RUP: 30.11.2021; Ogledov: 2797; Prenosov: 56
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8. The transfer of travel habits from childhood to adulthoodAnja Lazar, Janja Gabruč, 2017, drugi znanstveni članki Opis: This study examines whether touristsʹ travel habits and patterns transfer from their childhood to adulthood and which elements of their vacation are most commonly repeated in their adulthood. We have examined this phenomenon through a sur- vey questionnaire which has been completed by 111 respondents who take vacations regularly. The survey presented two sets of eleven pairing statements relating to the following travel elements: destination, spatial repetition, frequency, duration, tim- ing, organization, travel party composition, type of vacation, vacation activities, ac- commodation and travel mode. First set of eleven pairing statements referred to the presentwhilethesecondsetreferredtothepast.Wehaveexaminedrepetitionbycal- culating correlations between pairing statements. The results have shown existence of weak correlations between the majority of pairing statements which suggests rep- etition of repetition of childhood patterns and habits. The highest repetition rate has been noted with transport, activities and time elements, while no correlation has been noted with frequency element. Ključne besede: tourism, tourist, pattern, habit, travel Objavljeno v RUP: 20.11.2021; Ogledov: 2407; Prenosov: 27
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