TUZLA – CITY OF URBAN TOURISM
Semir Ahmetbegović
Željka Stjepić Srkalović
Fadila Kudumović Dostović
DOI: 10.35666/25662880.2025.11.226
UDC: 911.37:338.48(497.6 Tuzla)
Abstract: With the continuity of population and urban development since the Neolithic, which was dominantly based on the secondary sector and natural resources, Tuzla has developed into a regional centre of successful economic, social and urban development. At the beginning of the 21st century, Tuzla was affected by the transformation of the economic sector, which increasingly relies on tertiary and quaternary activities, including tourism. Thanks to the recognized potential and the newly built tourist infrastructure, Tuzla today records a constant growth in tourist traffic, which is increasingly taking part and even becoming one of the most vital sectors of the economy of this city. Today, Tuzla offers tourists a rich urban, cultural, historical and other tourist content with a built quality tourist infrastructure. The number of tourist accommodation capacities has increased, namely hotels and private apartments, flats and rooms, which can respond to both the number of visitors and the quality of service. The operation of the Tuzla International Airport, with increasingly better opportunities for expansion and opening new lines to numerous European cities, greatly contributes to tourist attendance. In Tuzla today we can talk about two seasons of urban tourism, the summer season in which the salt lakes "Pannonica" play a dominant role, which are part of the urban content, and the winter season, which is somewhat shorter, but still very popular. However, Tuzla is also visited in the off-season, when it becomes a centre for business, congress, educational and other forms of thematic tourism. Some forms of tourism record tourist traffic throughout the year, such as health tourism, for which this city has become very recognizable in the last twenty years.
Keywords: tourism, urban development, thematic tourism, urban tourism, Tuzla
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