Regional aspects of modern tourism development of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

The article presents the results of research of the geographic dimensions of contemporary tourism development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the level of tourism regions and municipalities that make up each region. For the purpose of this paper, a new tourism regionalisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was created, and the level of tourism development was analysed using available tourism flow indicators. The methodological approach was based on GIS analysis, which served as a tool for allocating five levels of tourism development in communities that make up a particular tourism region. The survey showed a significant disparity in Herzegovina when compared to other tourism regions. This is the result of valorisation of a small number of Herzegovinian tourism potentials, as well as tourism connections with the neighbouring Croatian coast. On the other hand, other regions are characterised by very low valorisation of potential tourism factors. In addition to the national level, the concentration of tourism flow has been observed on the regional level due to significant tourism development of a small number of destinations.Key words: tourism development, tourism, region, GIS analysis, Bosnia and Herzegovina U članku su predstavljeni rezultati istraživanja geografske dimenzije suvremenoga turističkoga razvoja Bosne i Hercegovine na razini turističkih regija i općina koje tvore svaku regiju. Za potrebe ovoga rada napravljena je nova turističkogeografska regionalizacija Bosne i Hercegovine, a stupanj turističkoga razvoja analiziran je korištenjem dostupnih pokazatelja turističkoga prometa. Metodološki je pristup utemeljen na GIS analizi pomoću koje je izdvojeno pet stupnjeva turističke razvijenosti općina koje tvore pojedinu turističku regiju. Istraživanje pokazuje značajno odstupanje Hercegovine u odnosu na ostale turističke regije. To je posljedica valorizacije samo maloga broja hercegovačkih turističkih potencijala kao i turističkoga povezivanja sa susjednim hrvatskim primorjem. S druge strane, ostale regije obilježava vrlo slaba valorizacija brojnih turističkih potencijalnih faktora. Osim na državnoj razini koncentracija turističkoga prometa opaža se i na regionalnoj razini uslijed značajnijega turističkoga razvoja iznimno maloga broja odredišta. UvodGeografska je neujednačenost jedna od glavnih značajka suvremenoga turističkoga razvoja. Ona se može primijetiti kako na državnoj (regionalnoj) razini tako i unutar samih turističkih regija. Geografska koncentracija turističkoga prometa unutar jedne ili maloga broja turističkih regija obilježje je gotovo svih turistički razvijenih zemalja svijeta (Curić i dr., 2013). S druge se strane postavlja pitanje koliko je geografska neujednačenost turizma značajka zemalja koje ne ulaze u skupinu turistički najrazvijenijih na svijetu. Upravo je to tema ovoga istraživanja, provedena na primjeru Bosne i Hercegovine, jedne od zemalja koje bilježe umjereni turistički promet. Cilj je istraživanja utvrditi u kojoj je mjeri geografska neujednačenost značajka turističkoga razvoja na region...

Tourism as a factor in demographic development trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina – the case of Neum and Jahorina

“…In addition to the restoration of tourism in pre-war tourist destinations such as Sarajevo, the Olympic Mountains (Bjelašnica, Jahorina, Igman, Trebević) (Banda and Opačić, 2017), Neum, Mostar, Međugorje (Madžar, 2010;Musa et al, 2017), the Sutjeska National Park, an increasing number of new tourist destinations that are primarily based on the supply of alternative forms of tourism and have great potential in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Opačić and Banda, 2018) are confirmed. The latter has an impact on the desirable spatial dispersion of tourism from the former centres of tourism development to a wider area (Glamuzina et al, 2017), on the diversification of the tourism supply and on the reduction of the negative effects of the seasonality of the winter and summer tourist seasons.…”

“…However, Herzegovina, especially Neum and the Central Mountain Region, in particular the Sarajevo area and the surrounding mountains, can be identified as the most developed tourist regions in the country (Mirić et al, 2016;Glamuzina et al, 2017;Avdić et al, 2022). Demographic and tourism development are closely related.…”

“…Neum, as the only coastal tourist destination in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Jahorina in the Central Mountain tourist region, as one of the leading ski tourist destinations in the country, are examples of tourist destinations from the two most developed tourist regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina(Glamuzina et al, 2017) (Figure1). As both tourist destinations show a somewhat more favourable demographic development than most other areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina, they were chosen as illustrative case studies for this study.…”

Regional-geographic concept of the development of tourism in the Una-Sana Mesoregion

“…The geographical concentration of tourist traffic within one or a small number of tourist regions is a feature of almost all tourism-developed countries in the world (Curić et al 2013). Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that records moderate tourist traffic at the state level (Glamuzina et al 2017). So far, numerous works have mainly focused on the analysis of potential tourist motives within individual macroregions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

Intenzitet turizma u vodećim hrvatskim turističkim gradovima i općinama

“…GIS analysis was also used for regional tourist differentiation for units of local and regional government and tourist regions in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Curić et al, 2012;Glamuzina et al, 2017) and also the tourist intensity rate as an indicator when branding destinations in Croatia and abroad (Mikulić et al, 2014;2016).…”