2 minutes agoTourism debate Edi Rama publishes Velipoja beaches video footage full of tourists from Kosovo
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Following the publication of several photos of empty beaches and videos in Albania that were interpreted as lacking tourists because of high prices, Prime Minister Edi Rama is also involved in the debate. In a video published on his Facebook page he shows Velipoja beach with a lot of vacations, [...]
In a video published on his Facebook page, he shows Velipoja beach full of vacations, while at the start of the footage he also focuses on Kosovo's flag.
Velipoja beach is among the most frequent destinations in Albania by Kosovo vacationers.
A debate has started in Albania whether expensive prices are driving tourists away, while others oppose it. Rama added that Albania needs more than just to increase the number of foreign tourists, but needs the country to return to a destination for all tourist categories. Rama had said late April that Albania does not need mass tourism, stressing that it is better for 100,000 tourists spending more than 1 million spending less.
“We don't need a mass tourism destination Albania. We don't just need to increase the number of foreign visitors, we need a country that balances all the layers and categories of tourists and that manages to formulate an offer, where there are numbers in first-looking views that matter, but it's the quality of numbers. What the quality of the numbers means that depending on the consumption of a tourist is determined how much interest you have and with what consequences you feed this interest, that you have 1 million tourists who consume little every day, or how much interest you have to have 100 thousand more tourists who consume too much every day“had said Rama.
