From September 26 to 28, 2025, PhD candidate Leona Matotek participated in the "2nd International Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development", held at St Mary’s University in London.
She presented the research titled "Tourist Perception of Thermal Comfort: Foundations for Index Development and Application in Protected Areas" (authors: Leona Matotek, Izidora Marković Vukadin, Hrvoje Carić), conducted within the framework of the HRZZ scientific project PACT-VIRA. The presentation focused on tourists’ perception of thermal comfort and on the development and application of tourism climate indices for assessing thermal comfort in a tourism context.
The paper is included in the conference proceedings (Vol. 2 No. 1, 2025) and is available online here.