Stari Most - Mostar
Bosnia and Herzegovina is rapidly emerging as one of the top
adventure destinations in Europe, and year after year is recording record
number of tourists visiting the country. In 2013, the World Economic Forum
reported in its Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report that Bosnia and
Herzegovina was the world's eighth friendliest nation towards tourists. According
to an estimate of the World Tourism Organization, Bosnia and Herzegovina will
have the third highest tourism growth rate in the world between 1995 and 2020.
In
2018, 1.465.412 tourists visited Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing an
increase of 12,1% with 3.040.190 overnight hotel stays, a 13,5% increase from
the previous year. Also, 71,2% of the tourists came from foreign countries.
Majority of tourist arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina are using commercial air
carriers. With the increase of presence of low-cost air carriers and
connectivity to major European airports the number of tourists is expected to
grow at bigger rate then expected.
Large number of tourists is coming from Gulf
countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and
Qatar). Flydubai is offering three daily flights in summer months from Dubai to
Sarajevo, Qatar Airways is offering four weekly flights between Doha and
Sarajevo (it is planed for flights to go daily in near future), Air Arabia if
offering two daily flights during July and August between Sharjah in United
Arab Emirates and Sarajevo. Bosnian startup airline FlyBosnia has received all necessary
permits and signed cooperation agreements with tourist agencies, airports and
ground handling agencies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain to start flights.
Flights are booked in advance by travel agencies and should start in June. FlyBosnia
will fly from Sarajevo to Riyadh 3x weekly, Jeddah 2x weekly, Kuwait City 2x
weekly and Bahrain 2x weekly.
FlyBosnia Airbus 319 E7-FBA at Sarajevo Airport
Bosnia and Herzegovina is expecting to record 10% growth in
tourist arrivals this year, with numerous new hotels being opened through the
country, to name the few: two Marriot hotels in Sarajevo, one in Banja Luka and
Mostar. Swissotel in Sarajevo and Novotel in Sarajevo. Hilton Sarajevo is
currently under construction. Arrival of new airlines and development of
domestic airline. FlyBosnia will increase tourists’ arrivals by double digit
numbers.
Swissotel in Sarajevo
Cumulative data, January –December 2018
In the period from January – December 2018 Bosnia and
Herzegovina recorded 1.465.412 tourists’ arrivals which represent the increase
of 12.1% and 3.040.190 overnight stays which is an increase of 13,5% compared
to the same period of 2017.
Top 20 countries (tourist arrivals)
The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 14.5% and
number of foreign tourist nights increased by 13.1% as compared to the same
period of 2017. Domestic tourist’s share of total number of overnight stays was
28.8% and foreign tourists share was 71.2%.
Overnight stays (in 51.8 percent) were done by tourists from
following countries:
Croatia (12.5%), Serbia (8.2%), Turkey (6.1%), Slovenia
(5.7%), United Arab Emirates and Germany (5.0% each), Italy (4.9%) and Poland (4.4%).
Tourists from other countries made up 48.2% of tourist night stays.
Foreign tourist with longest stay in 2018 were from Malta
with average stay of 5.2 nights, followed by Ireland by 3.7 nights, Kuwait by
3.6 nights, Qatar with 3.3 nights, United Arab Emirates with 3.1 and nights and
Egypt, France and Island with 3.0 nights. Most common accommodation booked by
foreign tourist was in Hotels, total 91,1% of all tourists stayed in Hotels,
while 8,9% used private rooms and other type of accommodation.
Source: Flying Bosnian and Agency for Statistics of Bosniaand Herzegovina
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