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8. THE GENERAL CONCLUSION RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCH
The general conclusion of the Monographs on the animator’s profile.
The modern man has the need to cope with job stress and monotony of daily
work through recreational activities, and the author defines the possibilities and
forms of tourist offers, which in the year 2005 records 808 million international
tourist arrivals globally, or,
in other words, tourism with 6 trillion dollars
represents 8% of total global employment, as it is directly and indirectly related
to tourism.
Almost all tourist institutions largely base their offer on the basis of recreational
programs. In addition to sport fields, there are professional people who have the
duty to maximize the impression of a good and healthy holiday. Animation as
an activity has the aim to revive tourism offer with a new content and encourage
guests to participate in these events. Animation is an important part of the
tourist offer, which, through its various forms and contents attracts
the attention
of tourists, encourages them to take on the activity that will contribute to the
leisure and recreation through intellectual and cultural superstructure and
contribute to the improvement of the content and quality of the tourist offer.
Based on the theoretical analysis of works from a number of current authors and
their own longstanding work in animation of recreational activities in hotels, the
authors give a detailed overview of tasks, duties and
activities related to the
organization and implementation of daytime and evening activities. Based on a
detailed examination of daily duties in different conceptions of hotel
entertainment, writer emphasizes the complexity of educating the tourism
animators.
This monograph aims to contribute to the defining the profile of recreation
animators in tourism. It should be noted that the animator as a person who
conducts the activities of people on vacation, primarily engages in guiding and
organizing physical activities, as exercise process, as applied sports games or as
applied sports in the function of association and the
wider context of an active
lifestyle which they have chosen when choosing their destinations.
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Managements of all tourist destinations insist that the programs of aerobics,
aquabic, swimming lessons, dance training,
organization, and basic
methodology of sports games (football, basketball, volleyball, handball, sand
volleyball, sand handball..) should be done by animators who
have knowledge
in this field. People on vacation require proper and accurate information
regarding all sporting activities, instruction that will instill confidence that,
behind this exercise, attitude, stroke, stands the person who was educated in the
profession, and that behind the person stands an institution such as the Faculty
of Sport and Physical Education. For precisely these reasons, I think the profile
of people who are engaged in this profession should be searched for in the field
of physical culture, and researching in this area should be facilitated in order to
contribute to the best possible formation and education of professionals for the
job.
The conducted research falls within one of the rare cases of research in the area
of sporting recreation and tourism as well, both in neighboring countries and in
our region. Research also aimed to draw attention to the needs of the described
animator profile in our country. Pioneering animator moves of employment here
surely deserve attention, and the message that it is all the more necessary to
engage professionally qualified profiles for this job.
The research is focused on the education of young
animators in the field of
tourism. Tourism Law of 2005 defines a new profile of professional staff in our
tourism, called "tourist animator" and defines that Tourist Organization of
Serbia will take care of the education system and the licensing. Even after seven
years, there is not yet any proposal on the designing of training and licensing of
tourist animators in our country. The legislature has clearly accepted that further
development of tourism as an economic sector needs a new profiling expert
staff of tourist animators. Further research of the profile of recreation animators
in tourism has become an indispensable link in the chain of education and
licensing of this personnel.
