an hour agoAlbania's number of tourists rises, Kosovars take first place
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The number of foreign citizens who visited Albania in the first six months of 2017 has risen to 9.9 percent compared to last year, or 2.4 times, with a number of 1,76 million, according to the statistical office I NSTAT reports SeeNews. Foreign citizens who have visited Albania on vacation [...]
Foreign citizens who have visited Albania on vacation include 32 per cent of all international visitors during the January-Qarsor period.
Or with the number of almost 562 thousand vacationers compared to this period last year, with which Albania had numbered 230 thousand, it broadcast Inseder.
In June alone, Albania has been visited by 437 thousand 820 tourists, marking an 11 per cent increase compared to last year. Of the total, 195 thousand and 48 people from that number had gone to Albania on vacation.
In June, the majority of visitors, 31 percent, have come from Kosovo, following Macedonia with 12.1 percent and Montenegro at 6.5 percent.
Most visitors have entered Albania via land HINA 76.9 percent, 14.7 percent by air, and 8.4 percent by sea.
According to the Bank of Albania, it broadcasts Top Channel, in 2016 the Albanian economy benefited 1.5 billion euros in tourism revenues, being equal to 15 percent of national production.
