Forget Italy, why Albania is the next stop for savvy visitors - Rama: Weekend Surprise, Tourist Albania in the Wall Street Journal
The American media giant Wall Street Journal this weekend has dedicated a long article to Albania Tourism. The news was welcomed and shared on social networks by Prime Minister Edi Rama.
"With a trip from Tirana to the southern villages, the Ionian coast or the market of Gjirokastra, our Albania is described as a precious stone on the tourist map of the Balkans, with the invitation to American readers to let themselves be enchanted by this destination where you can find a lot , including cultural and natural assets protected by UNESCO, Ottoman castles and relics of the Cold War, but also modern architecture and a cuisine of the highest level', wrote Rama on facebook.
In Robert Walzer's article, published in the Wall Street Journal, the author says that he and a friend of his follow adventure trips by bicycle all over the world. According to him, he received his friend's proposal to travel to Albania with trepidation.
'As I discovered during my research, Albania, like Italy and France, has sky-high Alps, a Riviera with crystal turquoise waters, a rich food culture, ancient history and medieval villages. What it lacks: tens of millions of tourists and the high prices of its counterparts in Western Europe.
It's no surprise, then, that the former Ottoman province is beginning to gain attention among savvy travelers—first Europeans, and now, a growing stream of Americans. Albania became a member of NATO in 2009 and since then has started to be a candidate for the European Union.
A new international airport and several state-of-the-art hotels are set to open next year, and a luxury island resort is being planned by none other than America's former and future son-in-law, Jared Kushner. But three decades after the fall of its oppressive communist dictatorship, the forest-covered Balkan nation still seems fresh unexplored,' writes the author in the Wall Street Journal.
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