In the first half of 2023, more than 940,000 foreign guests visited Serbia, 30 percent more than in 2022. This brought the country a foreign currency inflow from tourism of almost 900 million euros, according to representatives of the Ministry of Tourism and Youth.
The number of Chinese guests in the first six months of this year is 200 percent higher than in the same period last year, Assistant Minister of Tourism from the Tourism Inspection Sector Dunja Đenić said.
Vrnjačka Banja is one of the most visited tourist destinations in our country, and these days it is also chosen by many fans of film art, because the Film Screenplay Festival is in progress.
The director of the Tourist Organization, Ivan Trifunović, points out that the weekend was extremely good, with more than 50,000 guests. “Everything was full.” The beginning of the film festival, the wine fair, Danilo Bata Stojković Days, that’s something that marks the month of August,” says Trifunović.
Dunja Đenić, Assistant Minister of Tourism from the Tourism Inspection Sector, said that this will be a new record year for domestic tourism and that the dynamic growth in the number of foreign tourists speaks in favor of that:
“They visited the destinations as in previous years. The most interesting for them are certainly Belgrade, as the capital, behind that are the mountains of Kopaonik and Zlatibor, spas that are particularly interesting, Vrnjačka Banja, Sokobanja, and then the cities of Novi Sad and Niš. Manifestations also contribute, which are perhaps the most attractive, especially in this summer period”.
Foreign tourists mostly come from Russia and Turkey and from the region, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Croatia.
“There has been a significant increase in the number of Chinese guests arriving in Serbia, which increased by 200 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year,” Đenićeva points out.
