Educational Tourism Movements in and the Danube Region of Fruška Gora – Condition and Development Perspectives

Northern slopes of Fruška gora near the Danube area comprise a variety of natural and anthropogenic objects, phenomena and processes. Thus, that area of the mountain has grown into a constituent part of the tourist region of Novi Sad and Fruška gora, which geographical position, structure and quality of tourist attractions and receptive base have contributed to its functionally versatile and comprehensive tourism spatial structure. A group of professors and associates from the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Novi Sad in cooperation with Tourist Organization of Sremski Karlovci have completed valorisation of this area regarding tourism by application of didactical-methodological approach. They concluded that the Danube basin near Fruška gora might become the location for various educational program's and training's, i.e. “lesson in thing” and educational tourism in broader sense. The paper discusses this hypothesis based upon interdisciplinary scientific and methodological approach to the problem