Ivana Damnjanović

Ivana is a lecturer, a scientist, and a writer. She is based at the Faculty of Health and Business Studies, Singidunum University, Serbia. She focuses her professional interests on sustainable tourism, specifically in protected areas; community wellbeing; regenerative and transformational potential of tourist experience through storytelling; wellness through recreation, adventure, and nature-based tourism. 

As a lecturer, she is devoted to equipping future tourism professionals to be knowledgeable and creative, intentional and dedicated, mindful and empathetic, and recognize tourism as a milieu of stories to collect and guard, create and pass on. She facilitates learning experiences through creating enhanced and tailor-made students' educational opportunities at home and in an international context. She enjoys working with students with diverse cultural backgrounds (teaching in Serbia and across Europe since 2005). As a Vice-dean for international cooperation at the faculty, she enables students to create their international stories through exchange projects. 

Ivana loves spending time in nature, hiking, mountaineering, free-climbing, playing airsoft, to name a few. She adopts stray animals. She sees beauty in the blend of creativity, truth, passion, purpose, respect, love, sharing knowledge, and learning from others. She lives in her hometown, Valjevo, Serbia.