A lot of tourists go to Croatia for it's beaches and coastal towns. Even though Bosnia and Herzegovina has a tiny bit of coast, it is a classic inland country.

Concerning safety, you often have trouble communicating with locals, (comparatively) high corruption and an unstable economy. They are steadily improving but are not quite at the same level as Croatia.

Appart from that, they are not part of the EU and normally don't accept euros.

> nearly as safe

I beg to differ. I was on a road trip in Bosnia once, and I will never go inside a car in that country again. Roads are poor. Speed limits are more like a rough suggestion. The local drivers are absolutely insane: they take over really aggressively, even with traffic coming from the opposite direction. I thought everything was just "ok standard crazy" (I've lived in Greece, Croatia, etc so I had an idea), until our car was taken over in a narrow tunnel, on a right curve - the driver behind us (or the guy on the opposite lane) would've had ZERO chance.

Where did you live in Croatia? Because Croatian drivers are exactly the same as that, and even worse are the Slovenians who drive here. I recently avoided certain death by a fraction of a second because some idiot decided to overtake half a kilometer of cars around a blind curve at 120km/h.

Roads are probably better in Croatia but the drivers are most certainly not.

I lived in Zagreb & area, trips further east were very occasional, but we visited the coast regularly. Highways and better roads do help a lot, it's also an observation I've had when living in Poland, where the highway infrastructure has been around for a while, but many people still remember the old roads. You're in a hurry, but the road is bad, so you drive more aggressively, because the bad road & conditions slow you down. But as the roads improve, you get used to getting somewhere in X time consistently and without hassle, so there's no point in driving like crazy. Another friend living in Poland has also observed that a lot of traffic accidents in the past few years involved Ukrainian drivers, which would make sense if their road infrastructure is less developed = they still feel the need to drive more aggressively.

Unfortunately the main highway from Zagreb towards the coast is regularly subject to traffic jams in the summer, which definitely doesn't help. But overall I'd still say it's a radically safer place to drive than Bosnia, I've seen more insane drivers in 2 days there than in ~2 years of Croatia.