Dr. Darko B. Vukovic is a full professor and works at the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic" of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in Belgrade, Serbia, as the Head of Department of regional geography. He is also the Head of the International Laboratory for Finance and Financial Markets in the Faculty of Economics, People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), in Moscow, Russia. Dr. Vukovic has published more than 65 papers indexed in leading index databases: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Scopus, and ABS (CABS), including premium journals (Annals of Tourism Research, Expert Systems with Applications, Financial Innovations, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Research in International Business and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and more). His research has been awarded multiple times, with the most recent being the Emerald Literati Award 2021 for “Outstanding Paper” ("Residents’ perceptions of wine tourism on the rural destinations development") in the British Food Journal. From publisher Wiley, his research has been awarded as the Top Cited Article in 2020–2021, by the journal Internet Technology Letters. In 2017, he received an Honorary Doctor of Excellence, honoris causa (Excellentia Doctor), from CIAC—Confederation of International Accreditation Commission—in Mombai, India.