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Felix Romuliana, late Roman palace, UNESCO heritage site.
Mediana, the birthplace of Constantine the Great.
The Iron Gates of the Danube
Belgrade by night
Knez Mihailova (Prince Mihailo) Street, main pedestrian area in the city
Skadarlija, the city's old bohemian neighbourhood
Nišava River in the central part of Niš
Liberators monument at night.
Belgrade Zoo is a home to rare White lion cubs.
Dance arena in July 2006, one of the most popular stages on EXIT music festival.

Tourism in Serbia is officially recognised as a primary area for economic and social growth.[1] The hotel and catering sector accounted for approximately 1.0% of GDP in 2010.[1] Tourism in Serbia employs some 75,000 people, about 3% of the country's workforce.[1] In recent years the number of tourists is increasing, especially foreign once for about hundred thousand arrivals more each year. Major destination of foreign tourists is Belgrade and, to a lesser degree, Novi Sad, while domestic tourists prefer spas and mountain resorts.[2]


  • Manasija monastery.
    Manasija monastery.
  • Ravanica monastery.
    Ravanica monastery.
  • Kalenić monastery.
    Kalenić monastery.
  • Gračanica monastery.
    Gračanica monastery.

History and statistics

In the 1980s Yugoslavia was an important tourist destination in the Balkans. Overnight stays were almost 12 million per year, of which about 1.5 million were by foreign tourists. The events surrounding the break-up of Yugoslavia led to a substantial decline in both leisure and business tourism.[3]

In the twenty-first century tourism began to recover: the number of overseas visitors was 90% higher in 2004 than it had been in 2000, and revenue from foreign tourism more than tripled between 2002 and 2004, to about 220 million US dollars.[3] By 2010 revenue from international tourism had grown to 798 million while in 2016 it was estimated at 1.151 Billion. >

Arrivals per year

Year Arrivals Domestic Foreign
2003[4] 1,997,947 1,658,664 339,283
2004[5] 1,971,683 1,579,857 391,826
2005[6] 1,988,469 1,535,790 452,679
2006[7] 2,006,488 1,537,646 468,842
2007[8] 2,306,558 1,610,513 696,045
2008[9] 2,266,166 1,619,672 646,494
2009[10] 2,021,166 1,375,865 645,301
2010 2,000,597 1,317,916 682,681
2011 2,068,610 1,304,443 764,167
2012 2,079,643 1,269,676 809,967
2013 2,192,435 1,270,667 921,768
2014[11] 2,194,268 1,165,536 1,028,732
2015[12] 2,437,165 1,304,944 1,132,221
2016[13] 2,753,591 1,472,165 1,281,426
2017 [14] 3,085,866 1,588,693 1,497,173
2018[15] 3,430,522 1,720,008 1,710,514
2019[16] 606,984 331,508 275,476

Arrivals by country

2019(Jan-Feb)[16] 2018[15]
# Country Arrivals Country Arrivals
1 Bulgaria Bulgaria 23,902 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 121,384
2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 23,435 China China incl. Hong Kong 102,351
3 Croatia Croatia 20,304 Bulgaria Bulgaria 99,527
4 Montenegro Montenegro 17,666 Turkey Turkey 97,084
5 North Macedonia North Macedonia 15,842 Croatia Croatia 93,953
6 Romania Romania 15,764 Germany Germany 88,959
7 China China incl. Hong Kong 14,902 Slovenia Slovenia 86,897
8 Slovenia Slovenia 12,820 Montenegro Montenegro 82,142
9 Greece Greece 12,470 Romania Romania 76,779
10 Germany Germany 12,187 Greece Greece 71,359
11 Russia Russia 10,705 North Macedonia North Macedonia 65,557
12 Italy Italy 9,515 Poland Poland 57,074
13 Turkey Turkey 9,202 Italy Italy 51,444
14 Hungary Hungary 6,700 Russia Russia 49,765
15 Austria Austria 5,320 Hungary Hungary 44,320
Total international visitors 275,476 Total international visitors 1,710,514

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Serbia Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, in: Alain Dupeyras (ed.) (2012). OECD tourism trends and policies 2012. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development. ISBN 9789264177567. p. 403–407.doi:10.1787/tour-2012-56-en
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  3. ^ a b Marat Terterov (ed.) (2006). Doing business with Serbia Archived 2016-02-05 at the Wayback Machine, second edition. London: GMB Publishing. ISBN 978-1-905050-14-7. p.177.
  4. ^ "2003 статистика". srbija.travel. Archived from the original on 2014-08-13. Retrieved 2017-12-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  9. ^ "2008 статистика". srbija.travel. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "2009-2013 статистика" (PDF). srbija.travel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "2014 статистика" (PDF). srbija.travel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2018. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Републички завод за статистику – Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Serbia – Tourism, 2015" (PDF). 2015-10-05. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-12-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ "Туристички промет - децембар 2016 (2016 statistics)" (PDF). 2017-01-26. ISSN 0353-9555. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2017-12-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  15. ^ a b "Office of the Republic of Serbia, data for 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-04. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ a b "Office of the Republic of Serbia, data for first three month 2019" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

Further reading

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Serbia.
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