XXI. since the beginning of the century, the World Tourism Organization’s statistical data reveal that 37% of the participants in tourism movements constitute cultural tourism and that this demand will increase by 15% every year. The statistical data reveal that the “cultural tourism” demand represents a significant market segment. Cultural tourism, an important type of alternative tourism for the countries, is a type of tourism that is emphasized in terms of “increase in the number of tourists” and “protection of cultural values” as well as “income effect”. Nations, who hope for tourism, have gone on to develop competitive and salable products and to form strategies in order to get more share from world tourism. The history and cultural heritage of nearly 500 years of Ottoman domination, which occupies an important place in the history of the Balkans, These nations that broke out of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans a century ago and emerged as a nation state, The fate that has been reshaped between the East and West Blocks that emerged after World War II. In the last quarter of the century, the eastern bloc wrecked the Balkans into a restoration process. We will present an inventory of traces of Ottoman cultural heritage on the borders of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the emerging states of the former Yugoslavia, which is scattered as part of this process, and we will evaluate this cultural richness in terms of tourism.
Journal Section | IJTEBS |
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Publication Date | December 30, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 1 Issue: 2 |