Tourist overnight stays on the rise in Bosnia

Anadolija

Bosnia recorded some 180,000 tourists visits in June this year, which is 17.3 percent more compared to May 2018, and 24.6 percent compared to June 2018, Bosnia's Statistics Agency said on Wednesday.

The 349.594 overnight stays recorded in June of this year represents a 22 percent increase over the May says, and a 22.6 percent increase over the same month of 2018. of this number, 29.7 percent were local tourists and 70.3 foreign ones.

The number of overnight stays by local tourists in June 2019 was 23.4 percent higher than in June 2018, while foreign tourists made 18.6 percent more overnight stays during the same period.

Seen structurally, Saudi tourists were the most numerous (12.2 percent), then came Croatians (7.3 percent), Serbians (6.6 percent), Chinese (6.5 percent), Turks (5.7 percent), Poles (5.5 percent), Germans (5.3 percent), Slovenians, Americans and Italians (4 percent each) – making a total of 61 percent of all overnight stays. Other tourists made the remaining 39 percent.

When it comes to the length of their stay in the country, Bahrain tourists stayed the longest, with an average of 3.6 nights. Egyptians came on second (3.5 nights), Ukrainians were third (3.4 nights), Iranians (3.3 nights) Kuwaiti (3.2 nights), the Agency said.