At ITB Berlin the Albanian Tourism Minister Mirela Kumbaro and Dr. Mario Tobias, CEO of Messe Berlin, signed a partnership settlement for subsequent 12 months.
Albania has been introduced because the Official Host Nation of ITB Berlin 2025. On Wednesday, 6 March 2024, Albania’s Minister of Tourism and Atmosphere Mirela Kumbaro and Dr. Mario Tobias, CEO of Messe Berlin, signed a partnership settlement on the Albanian stand in Corridor 1.1. Afterwards, the minister launched the CEO to numerous areas and native specialities.
Each time Mirela Kumbaro talks about her residence nation Albania, she finds it arduous to not enthuse about it. “Albania is a hidden gem within the Mediterranean with a great tourism infrastructure”, she commented in the course of the signing ceremony. “Individuals are looking for new locations and experiences. Albania doesn’t match any of the standard stereotypes, however as an alternative is a small and kind of mystical nation the place travellers can acquire new experiences.”
In line with Mirela Kumbaro, there may be extra to go to than simply the ocean and mountains, which along with the rivers and forests cowl three-quarters of the nation. It’s the “Albanian spirit“ and the hospitality of the locals that make Albania so enticing. That has all the time been firmly a part of Albanian tradition, and never one thing simply invented for the trendy tourism age. “In Albania the home belongs to the visitor and God”, mentioned Mirela Kumbaro, quoting a standard saying in her nation. In Albania, guests may anticipate to be handled like royalty, she added.
Moreover, distances between vacationer sights in Albania are quick. It takes only some hours to succeed in the mountains from the coast. The Vjosa is a part of Europe’s lately declared Wild River Nationwide Park. Within the north, the Albanian Alps await with many mountaineering trails and pristine mountain villages, the place guests can discover lodging.
The most recent statistics are proof that tourism in Albania is taking off. Final 12 months, 10.1 million individuals visited Albania from overseas. In line with UN Tourism (UNWTO), in the course of the first six months of 2023 tourism in Albania skilled the third-highest progress worldwide and the best in Europe. A million vacationers have already visited Albania from overseas this 12 months, 50 per cent greater than over the identical interval final 12 months.
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She has a few years of each tutorial and industrial expertise throughout the journey business. She has written/edited quite a few articles in varied tourism magazines.
