Dr Stefan Denda is a Research Associate at the Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, within the Department of Social Geography, where he conducts research in the fields of social and historical geography. His expertise includes the analysis of quality of life, selective forms of tourism, as well as geopolitical and historical-geographical processes. His research focuses on examining the relationship between tourism and local communities, with an emphasis on residents’ perceptions and the sustainable development of tourism regions in Serbia. A significant part of his research concerns historical-geographical processes and geopolitical relations, including the analysis of the development of scientific cooperation and institutional frameworks in geography. In his work, he applies quantitative, statistical and spatial methods, as well as content analysis and comparative approaches, to understand historical and contemporary socio-geographical processes. His most significant scientific contributions are in the fields of selective forms of tourism, quality of life of local residents and tourist behaviour, as well as in research on historical-geographical processes, geopolitical relations and the development of geographical science. Research fields: social and historical geography, tourism geography and quality of life, political geography and geopolitics