Post-War Tourism in Sarajevo: Perceptions of Locals and Tourists

The study researched perception of locals and tourists about post-war tourism in Sarajevo. Questions in a questionnaire were divided into three categories of overcoming post-war tourism: landscape remembrance, fading memory and replacing memory, suggested by Nicholas A Wise in 2011. Participants defined which category should be the base of tourism offer in Sarajevo. There were 60 participants in total engaged in a survey, locals and tourists that visited Sarajevo and they gave their perception of Sarajevo’s post-war tourism. Results has shown that majority of participants think the focus in tourism offer should be based on ‘fading memory’ and least on the ‘landscape remembrance’. Interestingly, tourists want less of a focus on war in the tourism offer, while locals, especially those employed in tourism believe that even more war memorials should be built