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Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development: The Cultural Capital of Sarajevo

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The study presents the concept of cultural capital with the focus on cultural monuments as the crucial part of city attractiveness and their importance to the tourism sector. The cultural capital is an important element in the process of an overall sustainable development but, still to a large extent, the cultural heritage is neglected as well and is found on the margins of the state budget. The main aim of this study is to discuss the issue of neglecting the cultural heritage in Sarajevo and the lack of its representation in tourism offers. Accordingly, the research question is: Is the cultural and historical heritage sufficiently represented in the tourist offer of Sarajevo? In order to find an answer to the research question, two significant cultural monuments were analysed, as well as their representation in 8 popular tourist tours. By participating in eight tourist tours, it was determined that the two selected monuments are almost not represented at all, which refers to the lack of cooperation among the sectors and lack of an adequate approach to sustainable tourism development. In addition, the tourism and cultural heritage legislation has been analysed. This has provided an understanding of the causes of the problems identified. In accordance with the obtained research results, certain recommendations are proposed.

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    Butmir culture is a group of Neolithic period, with a number of local characteristics, which spread in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, the upper reaches of the Bosna River, from Zavidovići to Sarajevo. In the aforesaid territory of central Bosnia, there is a large number of smaller, closed fields along the river streams, which corresponded to the Neolithic communities that lived in smaller closed economic units. It was named after the results from the first and so far the largest (5306 m2) archeological site of Butmir in Ilidža near Sarajevo from the Neolithic era in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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    Musafirhana is a word of Persian origin and denotes a guest house for occasional travelers.

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    Tekke is a monastery of dervishes, especially in Ottoman Turkey.

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    Erbein involves isolating a dervish for 40 days.

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Dizdarević, L. (2023). Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development: The Cultural Capital of Sarajevo. In: Tufek-Memišević, T., Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, M., Ademović, N. (eds) Interdisciplinary Advances in Sustainable Development. ICSD 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 529. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17767-5_7

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