Tourist
community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and travel
agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive
packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their
wishes and interests.
This
has been arranged in a joint meeting held in Sarajevo, which was attended by
the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United Arab Emirates Šerif
Mujkanović, representatives of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo and
the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs as well as representatives of Sarajevo
International Airport and the travel agency Bosnia Travel.
At
this point of the pandemic, citizens of the United Arab Emirates have visa-free regime, without
any additional requirements, what made the participants of the meeting that an
additional attention should be directed towards the tourists from the UAE in
the upcoming period.
It
has been agreed, that the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo in
cooperation with the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina would
organize the arrival of leading tour operators, bloggers and representatives of
media from the United Arab Emirates in Sarajevo. The ambassador Mujkanović will provide help in
relation to discussions with tour operators and bloggers from the UAE and he will
arrange specific cooperation activities between them and the Tourist Community
of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
domestic travel agencies.
According
to the arrangement, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association
of Entrepreneurs, and the travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers
and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab
Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.
As
of January 1st 2021, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo will open
tourist info center at Sarajevo International Airport and set conditions so
that every guest – tourist is adequately informed on tourist potentials of the
Canton Sarajevo, destinations and other information in relation to the pleasant
stay in Sarajevo and the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo International Airport will, in
accordance with its possibilities and authorizations, create all necessary
requirements regarding the reception and the flow of the UAE tourists at the
airport.
Based
upon the statistical data of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the
tourists from the UAE visited the Canton Sarajevo quite significantly during
the period of 2019 and 2020. There were more than 5.000 tourists from the UAE
in 2020 for a period of ten months, with 25.000 overnight stays. The number of
arrivals exceeded a number of 25.000 in 2019, with more than 90.000 overnight
stays.
Currently Flydubai is offering four weekly flights between Dubai and Sarajevo. From March 1st 2021 Flydubai will offer daily flights between Dubai and Sarajevo, increasing to two daily flights from the beginning of May 2021.
Source:
Sarajevo International Airport
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