ZLATIBOR

BELGRADE - A total of 424,632 tourists visited Serbia from January to March this year, or 10 percent more compared to the same period in 2014, according to the data of the national statistics office.

2 million domestic and foreign tourists in 2014

BELGRADE -- There have been a total of 2.03 million tourists in Serbia in the period between January and November this year.

This is "on par with the first eleven months of last year," the National Tourism Organization of Serbia has said, quoting figures of the Serbian Statistical Office.

BELGRADE - Serbia's foreign exchange revenue from tourism will amount to around USD 1.1 billion this year, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic announced on Monday.

ZLATIBOR - The OSCE Mission to Serbia launched a project aimed at strengthening police capacity of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro in the fight against organized crime at a joint meeting of officials of the countries' interior ministries on Friday.

ZLATIBOR - The project entitled 'Through culture and tourism to a better partnership' will be completed by mid-October, during which reconstruction works should be finished in the church on Serbia's Zlatibor Mountain and the Piva Monastery and the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Montenegro.

ZLATIBOR - Well-positioned cultural institutions and enhancement of cultural tourism can be an important segment of Serbia's economic development, Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac told a regional conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) on Mt. Zlatibor, a tourism hub and climatic resort in western Serbia.

ZLATIBOR - The documentary entitled Once Brothers, directed by Micheal Tolajian, won the best film award of the 3rd International Sport Film Festival in Zlatibor, southwestern Serbia.

ZLATIBOR - The 3rd International Sport Film Festival is taking place August 22-25 on Mt. Zlatibor, western Serbia.

The competition part of the program will feature 12 documentaries by filmmakers from India, England, East Timor, France, Russia, Poland, U.S., Canada,Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia.