{"id":26409,"date":"2017-06-08T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtt.gov.rs\/?p=26409"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:27:09","slug":"government-will-support-religious-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/releases-and-announcements\/government-will-support-religious-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Government will support religious tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications Rasim Ljaji\u0107 has stated early today that Serbia has the potential for develop religious tourism but that is should work on the improvement of the infrastructure and marketing of those destinations.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the conference \u201cReligious Tourism and Contemporary Touristic Market\u201d, held at the Belgrade University of \u201cSingidunum\u201d, Mr Ljaji\u0107 has said that the government will promote and support religious tourism as much as it can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is the poor infrastructure, there are monasteries which are difficult to reach\u201d, Mr Ljaji\u0107 has said, adding that travel agencies should have offers of religious tourism as well, and the target groups would definitely be the tourists from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Minister has also added that, when it comes to religious tourism, a closer cooperation of Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece should be made at that regional level and to discuss what we can offer together. <\/p>\n<p>This subject of interest for all religious community in Serbia was the topic of its highest representatives \u2013 Head of Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej, Belgrade Archbishop Stanislav Ho\u010devar, and Reis of Islamic Community of Serbia Sead Nasufovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>State and religious representatives have concluded that the development of religious tourism can have beneficial economic effects, and to bring the people of different religions and nations together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications Rasim Ljaji\u0107 has stated early today that Serbia has the potential for develop religious tourism but that is should work on the improvement of the infrastructure and marketing of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/releases-and-announcements\/government-will-support-religious-tourism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":26185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[272,275,73,273],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26409\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=26409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26409\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26410,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26409\/revisions\/26410\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26185\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=26409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=26409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.mtt.gov.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=26409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}