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Vathi rejects tourism statistics: visitors are being counted twice, immigrants are not tourists
2023-09-13 23:13:52 / EKONOMI&SOCIALE
Besnik Vathi, member of the ATOA board, has rejected the tourism statistics made public by the Ministry of Tourism or INSTAT.
Invited this evening to Top Story about the tourist "boom" this summer season, Vathi expressed skepticism about the figures, saying that not every person who enters Albania is a visitor.
He said that there are many people who enter to work, for excursions, immigrants, or transit who cannot be counted as tourists.
"I am concerned about statistical accuracy. If we talk about rains, this increase has won like the work of the shirt since when it is stuck wrongly, it will continue like that. Not every foreign person who enters the border is a foreign visitor. He is excluded if he works in Albania. Are there foreigners working in Albania in this figure? There are hundreds of thousands of Turks working in Albania. Visitors are divided into excursionists and tourists. We must exclude transit travelers, we are a transit bridge for thousands of citizens of Kosovo. They are counted twice, we have to exclude transit passengers. We must exclude excursionists, those who pass only to visit Albania. It is the cruises, it is the excursions that come from Saranda that visit Butrint. Tourists count them for the second time when they return. Are there accurate statistics? We take the Italian invasion, Do we have immigrants living in Italy who have an Italian passport? They have definitely come to Albania, 100 thousand of them, if they come twice, they become 200 thousand. You have to look at the origin, ability to pay, how much they spend, how many nights they stay. Correct strategy should be done. If we say that there were many Italian tourists, there were, but as far as I know, Polish tourists should stay in the first place as foreign nationals. If we have to build policies, we have to determine where we will promote, how we will promote," said Vathi in Top Story. but as far as I know, Polish tourists should stay in the first place as foreign nationals. If we have to build policies, we have to determine where we will promote, how we will promote," said Vathi in Top Story. but as far as I know, Polish tourists should stay in the first place as foreign nationals. If we have to build policies, we have to determine where we will promote, how we will promote," said Vathi in Top Story.
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