Doc. dr. Adnan Kaljanac

University of Sarajevo

Faculty of Philosophy

Department of Archaeology

Conservation and preservation of cultural heritage within development of tourism in

Bosnia & Herzegovina as a part of

Adriatic - Ionian initiative

TEMPUS PROJECT BIHERIT „Curricular reform of heritage sciences in Bosnia and

Herzegovina“ [530755-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-BA-TEMPUS-JPCR]

2012 - 2014

Infrastructural development:

1. Printing & Publishing;

2. Equipment:

a) Archaeological equipment

b) Aerial survey equipment

c) Geophysical survey equipment ( flux gate, resistance meter, GPS etc.);

3. Training of staff for survey, excavation, conservation and preservation of archaeological sites and records;

4. Establishment of Institute for Archaeological Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina:

WTTC Economic Impact Estimates for Travel and Tourism

Tourism: 2020 Vision:

The World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts that cultural tourism will be one of the five key tourism market segments in the future, and notes that growth in this area will present an increasing challenge in terms of managing visitor flows to cultural sites.

Egyptologist Rainer Stadelman:

“Tourism is already a catastrophe. But we have to admit that without tourism there would be no public interest, and without that there would be no money for our work”.

UNESCO:

Cultural tourism can encourage the revival of traditions and the restoration of sites and monuments. But unbridled tourism can have the opposite effect. Here there is a real dilemma. Is there not a risk that the boom in cultural tourism, by the sheer weight of numbers involved, may harbour the seeds of its own destruction by eroding the very cultures and sites that are its stock in trade?

UNESCO: Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar (2005)

UNESCO: Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad (2007)

Tekija on spring of river Buna (2009)

Archaeological excavations (2009 – 2010)

Tekija on spring of river Buna (2014)

Old City Jajce (2013)

Archaeological excavations (2010) Unesco: Submitted on the Tentative List

Badanj (Stolac)

Prehistoric city Daorson

Medieval necropolis Radimlja

Blagaj (Buna) Medieval city

Mogorjelo Late Antiquity

- Potentially Endangered Archaeological sites by increasing tourism development; - Properly conserved and maintained results with sustainable tourist attraction; - Potential cultural and historical park of Bosnia and Herzegovina within increasing tourism development in Adriatic – Ionian region;