Education through excursions in the function of sustainable development of tourism in the case of National Park Đerdap

Excursions represent specific aspects of tourist movement that are related to the traveling of a group of people, usually for fun but also for educational purposes, when it comes to pupils and students who are traveling. Creating thematic excursions in the territory of the national park Đerdap with special emphasis on the attractive parts of protected area of the national park, among which there are natural and anthropogenic tourist potentials, contributes to raising the level of awareness and knowledge of possibilities of sustainable development of tourism. The Đerdap Gorge, the Danube River, Lepenski vir, Golubac, the remains of Trajan's bridge, Trajan's board (tabula Traiana), the Roman limes, the preserved richness and diversity of flora and fauna, are just a part of the tourist attractive motives that fit excursion tourist product of the Đerdap National Park and thus attract visitors. Apart from developing interest in the protection of the environment and acquiring traveling habits, as well as introducing adequate ways of staying and behaving in the national park Đerdap, the participants in excursions educate themselves indirectly, through this type of traveling, about the values of the national park, as well as the importance of specific forms for the sustainable development of tourism in the territory of Đerdap.