In June 2018 tourists realized 143,693 tourist arrivals in Bosnia and Hercegovina which represent the decrease by 4.4% as compared to May 2018 and increase by 14.3% as compared to June 2017.
Tourists realized 285,227 tourist nights which represent the decrease by 0.7% as compared to May 2018 and increase by 17,0% as compared to June 2017. Domestic tourists share of a total number of overnight stays was 29.5% and foreign tourists share was 70.5%.
The number of domestic tourist nights decreased by 7.3% as compared to May 2018 and increased by 26.0% as compared to June 2017. Foreign tourist nights increased by 2.4% as compared to May 2018 and increased by 13.6% as compared to June 2017.
Concerning the structure of foreign tourist nights in June 2018, the most of them (55.3%) were realised by tourists from: Poland and Croatia (7.8%), Serbia (6.5%), Turkey (6.1%), Slovenia (5.2%), Kina and Italy (4.8%) and Germany, Saudi Arabia(4.1%). Tourists from other countries realized 44.7% of tourist nights.
Regarding the average detention of foreign tourist stays in our country on the first place comes Kuwait and Qatar with average stay by 3.4 nights, Ireland and Belgium with 3.1nights, Netherlands with 3.0 nights and Denmark with 2.8 nights.
Available rooms, apartments and camping sites for tourists in Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 2018 amounted to 20,161, which is 6.3% increase compared to June 2017. The number of available beds was 44,013 beds, which is increased by 8.7%, compared to the same month of 2017.
In June 2018, in the activity – Hotels and similar accommodation, number of rooms and apartments available to tourists amounted to 17,486, which is an increase of 6.6% compared to June 2017., and number of available beds amounted to 36,622 which is an increase of 9.7%, compared to the same month of the previous year.
The net occupancy rate of permanent beds was 23.2%.
According to the type of accommodation facility, the highest number of nights was recorded in Hotels and similar accommodation with a share of 97.7%.