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7. CONCLUSION 
75 survey respondents participated in the research (40 females and 35 males). All of 
them were animators that were employed during the summer on the Mediterranean 
coast. The main method of this research was the so-called "survey" method. The 
method of theory analysis was also used to contribute to the main analysis. The data 
that were contrived by this research were edited by standard methods of descriptive 
statistics. It is not easy to give qualitative dimension to some pedagogic 
phenomenon as they are attributive signatures.
The given results show that most of surveyors who are animators are people from 
23-27 years, i.e. 21-30 years old. 
75 survey respondents took part in our research out of which 35 of them are men 
and 40 are women.
As there is an equal number of women and men in our research, it tells us that the 
job of animation is practiced by equal number of people of both gender.
Based on these data we may confirm that the animation is done by people under 35 
years and of both sexes. 
The data from the area of professional information that are related to the education 
of the animator we concluded that the most of survey respondents finish their 
schools and courses at home (45,3%). The reason is simple – it is always more 
practical and cheaper solution, but also considerable number of animators are 
educated at faculties (21,3%) and at agencies that offer courses for this profile 
(22,7%). 13,3% educate at the hotel in which they had already seen the animation 
and decided to stay and learn in a hotel. 
Results considering the skills of handling certain activities are different. All of the 
animators who prepare for the job have most knowledge in the area of fitness, 
aquabic, show dance, choreography, DJ skill... Most animators that come from 
these schools apply for the job because they know that these are the skills that are 
highly ranked. There is a difference between man and women animators in handling 
daily and evening activities according to chart 3. Activities like step and dance 
aerobic is favored by women while personal training and body building have higher 

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value when men are considered. Difference is evident in DJ skills as it goes in 
favour of men, while make-up has higher average value at women. Still, over 50% 
of survey respondents know well, very well and excellent fitness, personal training, 
aquabic, aerobic, Pilates, body building, massage etc. We can conclude based on 
this that the animators passed through the animation training and that they possess 
the knowledge for realization of recreational activities. 
In the analysis of daily activities we see that volleyball is on first place with 89,3% 
of the ones who prefer and adore this activity. Aquabic follows with 89,3% 
(difference is that volleyball is adored by 68% and aquabic by 61%). Darts, table 
tennis and mini club are the activities that are preferred but not so much adored, but 
still they are on top of the chart. Water polo and Olympic day follow, while 
activities that are much adored are stretching and hiking. Ranked programs show 
the attractiveness of certain activities so at the top are universal and commercial 
activities. 
At the bottom of ranked activities are golf, karate, tai chi, horse-riding, ballet. All 
sports recreational activities are interesting to animators.
The analysis of the evening programs shows that first 10th places belong to contact 
evenings. Most of animators feel that the atmosphere is better if the audience 
participates in creating the activities. 60% i.e. 70% of animators prefer activities 
like dance night, beauty contests and the best couple. We may conclude that the 
most of animators prefer typical evening programs i.e. the activities where the 
contact with the audience is the main happening.
Communication is the inevitable part of animation. Communication with the clients 
is the most important one. Over 90% of animators consider it to be important. 
Communication with management, bar personnel, restaurant and kitchen staff, 
maintenance department is also important. This confirms that every communication 
is the basis for the job as an animator. 
If we analyze the results of the research of announcement the activities we can see 
that the most of animators prefer it when the activities are announced on the board. 
Over 80% prefer the daily option of announcement and 75% prefer the weekly one. 
Microphone also has its function in informing the guests about activities. 
Presentation on the welcome meeting is on 4th place. Daily routine is also the 
inevitable way of informing the guests about the activities. The announcement of 
the activities through written material is not so efficient because of the fact that the 
guests do not like to read on vacation. The announcement of the activities a couple 
of days in advance has an important part of animation marketing.
In the end we see that the animators are capable of handling large number of daily 
sports recreational activities, typical evening programs based on the level of general 
education and based on the specific training which confirms our