Amra Banda
Vuk Tvrtko Opačić
RAZVOJ TURIZMA NA OLIMPIJSKIM PLANINAMA BJELAŠNICI I IGMANU
DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2016.4.606
UDC: 911.3:338.48-44(497.6Bjelašnica.Igman)
Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina, where winter tourism appeared and developed considerably during the period of socialist Yugoslavia, today after independence and post-war reconstruction, represents an increasingly important ski tourist destination. Olympic mountains Bjelašnica and Igman are representative example of mountain tourist destinations in Bosnia and Herzegovina that have passed through several stages of tourism development. Before the Winter Olympic Games held in Sarajevo in 1984, the majority of leisure activities on Bjelašnica and Igman was related to recreation - mostly hiking and day or weekend skiing. The turning point in the development of tourism in this area was the construction of the Olympic trails for alpine and nordic skiing, ski jumping platform, as well as hotel capacities and the necessary utilities and transport infrastructure. War after the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia in the first half of the 1990s completely stopped the development of tourism, and all pre-war hotel facilities with associated infrastructure have been destroyed. In the last fifteen years, part of the hotel facilities were reconstructed and tourism is developing sometimes over the carrying capacity of sensitive mountain ecosystems. The recent tourism development is characterized by a variety of tourism supply with diverse forms of tourism in different seasons with the dominance of the winter tourist season and the skiing tourism of mass character, especially on Bjelašnica. Bjelašnica with Igman is a popular tourist destination for skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, hiking, and in recent years rural tourism in developing in villages of Bjelašnica. The aim of this research is to analyze spatial characteristics of the tourism and recreation development on Bjelašnica and Igman. Bjelašnica and Igman have the potential for further tourism development, but it is necessary to ensure cooperation of various sectors in order to provide investments, create a tourism development strategy but also solve the problem of communal and transport infrastructure.
Key words: Olympic mountains, Bjelašnica, Igman, tourism development, mountain tourism, Bosnia and Herzegovina