The impact of tourism on the economic growth in BiH

Tourism as socio-economic phenomenon reflectsdifferent influences (economic, social, political etc.), and in linewith it, it has an important role in the overall economic growth.The aim of this paper is to determine the contribution of tourismin the overall economic growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)during the period of years 2006-2014. Using the methodologywhich used Čerović et al. (2015) for calculating the rate of realGDP growth and the contribution of tourism towards overalleconomic growth in countries in the region (Serbia, Macedonia,and Montenegro), in this paper we demonstrated that tourism, inthe observed period, had a modest direct contribution towardsoverall economic growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina