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Bosnia and Herzegovina Internet country code: .ba International telephone prefix: +387  Tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina offers a favourable tourist business investment environment with an increasingly active tourism promotional system.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a top performer in recent years in terms of tourism development; tourist arrivals have grown by an average of 24% annually from 1995 to 2000. According to an estimation of the World Tourism Organization, Bosnia and Herzegovina will have the third highest tourism growth rate in the world between 1995 and 2020. The major sending countries in 2002 have been Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, USA, Poland, Great Britain, Austria, and Spain. Numerous airlines have flourished in the past decade to accomadate ever growing numbers of tourists, including; Arnoro, Bosnia Airlines, FlyBosnia, and the most succesful being B&H Airlines. Bosnia and Herzegovina offers numerous investment opportunities throughout the country, both greenfield and brownfield, in areas including spas, natural and recreational attractions, religious and cultural tourism. Several tourism-related facilities are scheduled for privatisation. These include the main hotels and various tourist facilities in Sarajevo, and the Olympic centres at the Olympic Mountains. |
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