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Monday, April 1, 2019

✈Bosnia and Herzegovina tourism statistics for 2018


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.



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