The Union for Sustainable Return and Integrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina created website "BH VILLAGE" in order to collect and present informations about touristic attractions related to the ethno villages, rural housholds, national parks and other destinations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"BH VILLAGE" seeks to improve rural areas that have great potential for developing tourist capacities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We want to motivate and support people that live in rural areas to start their own business through the opening of rural households and present them the opportunities and advantages offered by development of rural toursm. By using good practice and direct insight into needs, we are trying to create solutions that are realistic and feasible together with the target group.
Rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina have great potential for development of rural tourism. Let's motivate and support people living in rural areas to organize their own business through the opening of rural households.
The Project "Let's make together life better in Bosnia and Herzegovina" was supported by the Government of Switzerland:
Beside of protection of cultural heritage, restoring old houses, agricultural facilities, the goal is to stop the emigration of the population and encourage return of domicile population, with an emphasis on the production of healthy food.
The Project "Let's make together life better in Bosnia and Herzegovina" supported by the Government of Switzerland is implemented y the Union in areas of Bihać, Lukavac and Čapljina .
Surveying returnees and internally displaced persons in Bihać, Čapljina and Lukavac during 2016, which was conducted by the Union, has enabled us to create a wider picture of investment needs in areas that are in a position to succeed and to enable people living in rural areas to live from their own business. Taking into consideration that the above mentioned surveys were mainly conducted in rural areas, we realized that we should specifically help the interviewed families, and at the same time, create an environment in order to strengthen the tourism potential in those areas.