Tourist community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.
This has been arranged in a joint meeting held in Sarajevo, which was attended by the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United Arab Emirates Šerif Mujkanović, representatives of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo and the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs as well as representatives of Sarajevo International Airport and the travel agency Bosnia Travel.
At this point of the pandemic, citizens of the UAE have visa-free regime, without any additional requirements, what made the participants of the meeting that an additional attention should be directed towards the tourists from the UAE in the upcoming period.
It has been agreed, that the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo in cooperation with the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of B&H would organize the arrival of leading tour operators, bloggers and representatives of media from the UAE in Sarajevo. The ambassador Mujkanović will provide help in relation to discussions with tour operators and bloggers from the UAE and he will arrange specific cooperation activities between them and the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs of B&H and domestic travel agencies.
According to the arrangement, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the Association of Entrepreneurs and the travel agencies will in cooperation with hoteliers and KJP ZOI'84 make attractive packages for tourists from the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with their wishes and interests.
As of 1st January 2021, the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo will open tourist info centre at Sarajevo International Airport and set conditions so that every guest – tourist is adequately informed on tourist potentials of the Canton Sarajevo, destinations and other information in relation to the pleasant stay in Sarajevo and B&H. Sarajevo International Airport will, in accordance with its possibilities and authorizations, create all necessary requirements regarding the reception and the flow of the UAE tourists at the airport.
Based upon the statistical data of the Tourist Community of the Canton Sarajevo, the tourists from the UAE visited the Canton Sarajevo quite significantly during the period of 2019 and 2020. There were more than 5.000 tourists from the UAE in 2020 for a period of ten months, with 25.000 overnight stays. A number of arrivals exceeded a number of 25.000 in 2019, with more than 90.000 overnight stays.