About the project
Bosnia and Herzegovina Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to the country, written in English for people planning a trip from abroad. It runs to over 140 guides: entry rules and trip planning, transport and border crossings, cities, attractions, food and where to eat, ready-made routes, car rental and insurance. The first guides went out in July 2026, and new ones are added regularly.
Nothing here is written from memory, and nothing retells someone else’s article. Every guide carries the date it was last checked, every price and timetable has a named source behind it, and the rest of this page explains how that works in practice.
How topics are chosen
We start from what people search for before a trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina: how to get from Sarajevo airport into town, whether a Green Card is needed at the Croatian border, what a day trip to Kravica costs, when the Jahorina lifts run. Search demand decides what gets written first, not a random list of sights.
Where a guide recommends a specific place - a restaurant, a viewpoint, a tour - it has to be consistently well reviewed across several independent sources, not just one. We don’t reprint anyone’s ratings or review counts: the guide says why a place was picked and sends you to the map or the source for the current score.
How every number is checked
Every price, timetable, distance and date in a guide is traced to the page of the operator who sets it, and that page is recorded in the guide’s source list together with the date it was checked. For Bosnia and Herzegovina this most often means Centrotrans (centrotrans.com) and GRAS (gras.ba) for buses and city transport, ZFBH (zfbh.ba) for trains, the Green Card bureau (bzkbih.ba) for border insurance rules and the Border Police (granpol.gov.ba) for entry rules.
Before a guide is published, an automated check reads the numbers in its title, summary, tables and opening section and looks for each one on the operator pages it cites; a figure that cannot be found there fails the build, and the guide does not go out. Aggregators, booking sites and other blogs aren’t accepted as the source of a number; at most they serve as a cross-check for a journey time. Prices still drift between checks, so treat the check date as the freshness stamp and confirm anything that matters for your money on the operator’s page before you pay.
Photos and sources
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons, and each one carries the author, the licence and a link to the original right under the frame.
Facts follow the same rule: a guide names where a number came from, not just the number. Wikipedia is used for geography such as distances between towns, never for prices, timetables or dates.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, directs the work, checks the result against the sources and decides what is published. The project is run by A. Kobtsev, whose name is in the footer of every page. The check date on a guide is the date of that editorial pass, and guides are revisited by season, because places close and prices move.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Guidebook is one of twelve country guides from the same publisher, built on one editorial system with the same source rules and the same automated checks. That’s why they look alike; the content of each is written for its own country.
How the project pays for itself
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, transfers, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, we get a small commission from the service. The price for you stays the same, and the project exists and is updated on these funds.
Partnership does not affect selection: a place or a service makes it into the guide for its reviews and its checked facts, not because it has an affiliate program. If it is better or more honest to recommend an option without an affiliate link, we recommend it.