2024

While in Albania there is a debate about why the sunbeds on the beaches are in some areas, it seems that the citizens of Albania and Kosovo are the ones who have "abandoned" the beaches, as they have been their most regular visitors. Part of the Albanian citizens have fled to emigration (the Census showed 420,000 Albanians less than in 2011), while vacationers from Kosovo have more alternatives...

04/06/2024 London, UK: The World Travel & Tourism Council’s (WTTC) 2024 Economic Impact Research (EIR) has revealed today that the Albanian Travel & Tourism sector contributed more to the economy and supported more jobs in 2023, than any previous year on record. According to the global tourism body’s latest research, the sector's contribution to Albania’s GDP reached almost...

Foreign tourist arrivals to Albania reached 2,167,665 in August, a 7.2% increase compared to the same month last year, the country’s statistics office, INSTAT, said on Wednesday. Tourists from southern Europe represented the largest group, accounting for 70.5% of the total number of foreign tourists who visited Albania in August, INSTAT said in a monthly report. Foreign tourist arrivals to...

April 29 (SeeNews) - Albanian prime minister Edi Rama said on Monday that the government expects 20 million foreign tourists to visit the Balkan country by 2030. The number may even reach 30 million as tourism growth surpassed the government’s projections last year, Rama added. Last year, the prime minister said the government had projected foreign tourist arrivals to reach at least 9...