"August tourist boom"/ Rama answers the opposition: Epoch change in the tourism sector

2024-09-02 13:31:00, Aktualitet CNA

"August tourist boom"/ Rama answers the opposition: Epoch change in

Prime Minister Edi Rama has stated that even in the month of August there was a boom in tourists coming to Albania.

Rama has published the balance of the period January-August 2024 where it says that 7 million and 233,711 passengers entered Rinas, where in the same period last year their number was 4 million and 606,805. This balance speaks of 56% growth in the current year.

The prime minister has also called this an epochal change in the tourism sector, while there was no shortage of answers for the opposition.

"Those who comment that we need tourists, should consider that all these millions of people spend money in Albania to sleep, to eat, to travel, to buy gifts and all this money does not go to some "oligarchs" ", as some frowning knights of the war with the government put it briefly, are pouring into the coffers of the family budgets of tens of thousands of rented rooms, of thousands of hospitality structures in the four corners of Albania, of thousands and thousands of service units of small businesses", writes Rama, among other things.

Rama's post.

AUGUST BOOM

ALBANIA DOES NOT STOP in increasing the number of tourists and Rinas in August exceeded any optimistic forecast, with 1 million and 251,467 passengers or 368,456 (41%) more than last August.

The January-August 2024 balance reaches 7 million and 233,711 passengers who entered Rinas alone, where in the same period last year their number was 4 million and 606,805. This balance speaks of 56% growth in the current year.

This year's novelty is nearly 4,000 passengers from Japan, another 4,000 from New Zealand, almost 20,000 from Australia and 35,000 from Canada.

Those who comment that we need tourists, should consider that all these millions of people spend money in Albania to sleep, eat, travel, buy gifts and all this money does not go to some "oligarchs". , as some frowning knights of the war with the government put it short, are pouring into the coffers of the family budgets of tens of thousands of rented rooms, of thousands of hospitality structures in the four corners of Albania, of thousands and thousands of service units and small businesses.

Undoubtedly, a part of them also go in the form of taxes to the state budget coffers for further investments and for significantly increased salaries, and it is no accident that the government is not yet intervening to tax, as everywhere in Europe, the large growing volume of rooms data for rent, because we want first all Albanians to experience not only the benefits of this epochal change in the tourism sector, but also to understand with facts how many opportunities there are still in Tourist Albania for those who live here, both for those who are still reluctant to return, and for those who have made up their minds not to return but have a golden time to invest their savings in Albania./ CNA