News in English     | 07.02.2018. 10:28 |

Number of tourists in BiH increased by over 550 000 over past five years

FENA Emir Felic

SARAJEVO, February 7 (FENA) – Tourism in BiH is one of the fastest growing sectors and is an important part in the economy in the entire country.

In the period from January - December 2017 tourists realised 1,307.319 tourist arrivals, which represents the increase by 13.7% and 2,677,125 overnight stays, which is 12.3% more compared to the same period of 2016.

The number of domestic tourist nights increased by 3.8% and the number of foreign tourist nights increased by 16.2% as compared to the same period of 2016, Agency for Statistics of BiH stated.

Domestic tourist share of total number of overnight stays was 28.5% and foreign tourists share was 71.5%.

Concerning the structure of foreign tourist nights, the most of them (48.3%) were realised by tourists from Croatia (11.8%), Serbia (8.1%), Turkey (7.3%), Italy (5.7%), Slovenia and UEA (5.3%). Tourists from other countries realised 51.7% of overnight stays.

 

(FENA) A. B.

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