Challenges there may be, but Albania’s economy is broadly in a good place. A boom in tourism is driving growth at levels above most of its regional peers.
While tourism across most of the world has broadly recovered from the massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a select few places it has actively been booming—some countries are receiving more visitors now than at any time in their history.
One of these is Albania. Foreign tourist arrivals jumped to well over 10 million in 2023 (according to the country’s ministry of tourism), up 35 per cent on 2022 and…