Foreign tourist arrivals to Bosnia rise 16.7% y/y in Jan-Aug

The total number of tourists staying in the country in the first eight months of 2017 increased by 14.1% year-on-year to 160,932, data posted on the website of Bosnia's Agency for Statistics showed.

Total tourist overnights in January-August increased to 372,102, up 11.6% year-on-year. Of them, foreign tourist overnights accounted for 79.6%, or 296,299, up 13.7% on the year.

Visitors from the United Arab Emirates accounted for 8.5% of foreign tourist overnights in the first eight months of 2017, followed by visitors from Saudi Arabia with a 8.1% share, and from Italy with 7.4%.

In 2016, the number of foreign tourists who visited Bosnia grew by 15% year-on-year, reaching 776,889, while overall tourist visits increased by 12% to 1.15 million.