SARAJEVO, Jun 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Tourist arrivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), rose sharply in Apr, year-on-year, the Agency for Statistics of BiH said yesterday.
According to the agency, the country registered 35,328 tourist arrivals during the month. In Apr, 2020, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of BiH’s hotels and other accommodation facilities were closed, only 1,539 tourist arrivals were recorded in the country.
In Apr this year, BiH reported 84,045 overnight stays, compared with 7,851 recorded in Apr, 2020. The share of foreign tourists was 37.8 percent.
For foreign tourist nights in Apr this year, most of them were by tourists from Serbia, the United Arab Emirates, Croatia and Turkey.
Tourists from Brazil spent 7.7 nights in the country on average, and the respective figures were 7.4 nights for Finland, 5.4 nights for China, 4.8 nights for Norway and 4.4 nights for Kuwait.– NNN-AGENCIES
