CONCEPTS OF TOURISM REGIONALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY TRENDS OF TOURIST MOVEMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Ranko Mirić, Nusret Drešković, Boris Avdić, Edin Hrelja
DOI: 10.35666/25662880.2016.2.293
UDC: 338.482:911.7(497.6)
Abstract: Tourism regionalization is a methodological procedure of determination and classification of homogeneous spatial tourism structures for the purpose of regional and general socio-economic development optimization, as well as rational, sustainable and functional spatial organization and adaptability form the aspect of contemporary trends in tourism. According to geographical concept, tourism region is supposed to emphasize certain motive territoriality (tourism resources) and eventually functionality of tourist traffic, depending whether it is a potential or an activated tourism area. Tourism region is than a spatial unit with potential or activated tourism motives (attractive resources), in which tourism is one of dominant economic activity that has unifying function, while the spatial physiognomy is generally adjusted to that function. In contemporary period, conceptualism in approach to tourism regionalization of national territory inclines toward wide spectrum of approaches, which is a consequence of non harmonized and separate vision of development of tourism activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Predominant cause should be sought in political and administrative division of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is recognized as crucial limiting factor that affects on multiple problems for more dynamic development of tourism sector according to existing resources and potentials. Besides the review of tourism regionalization concept, this paper deals with issues of certain elements of tourist traffic in contemporary context, through the quantitative parameters of dynamic and static indicators, by application of comparative analysis of temporal series.
Key words: tourism, Bosnia and Herzegovina, regionalization, trends in tourism