A half-billion-euro wine flow profit increases

Only during the summer season have businesses of this sector circulated between 400 million and 500m euros, including these collected from various hotel services mostly parties.

So it says, Hysen Sogoyev, chairman of the Hotel and Tourism House.

“After pandemic has normalised the situation. Between 400 and 500 million are brought in”, he stressed.

According to him, income would be many higher if the diaspora spent all the money in their homeland.

“Hoteleria depends on a few. Most exiles, the main expenses are here. If they didn't go off to Albania and Montenegro, about half the budget would be alive”, Sogojevo said of “Front Online”.

Sogojevo highlighted a problem facing the sector.

And this sector, like everyone else, is having problems with workers. Their daily numbers decrease. Professionals are going to find work in other countries”, Sogojevo indicated.

Meanwhile, according to the Kosovo Statistics Agency for June, the number of local and foreign visitors to Kosovo was 37292.

Of them 30.59% were local visitors, and 69.41% were abroad.

According to the poll, the largest number of foreign visitors focuses on Pristina, Pec and Prizren. As for foreign visitors, the largest number was from Albania, Germany and Turkey.

Part of the ASS poll was 209 hotels, which exercise hotel activities on Kosovo territory.