Dex-Based Evaluation of Sustainable Rural Tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Adis Puška (), Anđelka Štilić, Miroslav Nedeljković and Aleksandar Maksimović
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Adis Puška: Government of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulevara Mira 1, 76100 Brčko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anđelka Štilić: Academy of Applied Studies Belgrade, The College of Tourism, Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 152a, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia
Miroslav Nedeljković: Institute of Agricultural Economics, Volgina 15, 11060 Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar Maksimović: Government of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulevara Mira 1, 76100 Brčko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tourism and Hospitality, 2022, vol. 3, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: The research objectives presented in this paper are to assess the current state of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rural tourism offer and to recommend a course of action for its development based on the model’s data that was gathered from subject-matter experts. In this paper, the multicriteria analysis method DEX (Decision EXpert) was utilized to assess the capacity of rural tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) and to obtain the results. All establishments were rated “very good”, seeing that they made use of the natural beauty that BIH has to offer. The outcomes of using this model were used to generate suggestions for the long-term development of rural tourism in BIH. The contribution of the employed model is in the developed starting points for the advancements of rural tourism in BIH, and the proposed model presents a novel method for evaluating a nation’s tourism potential that could be used in future studies in other tourism-related fields as well. The limitations of this paper stem from the fact that not all tourist establishments were considered due to the lack of unified records for all of these establishments. The model used in this research, on the other hand, is applicable to all tourist capacities, which is an advantage.

Keywords: rural tourism; DEX method; sustainable tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z3 Z30 Z31 Z32 Z33 Z38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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