Swiss tourists will soon populate the beaches of Albania, as tour operators have added this destination to the 2019 Summer program and hope to have multiple bookings, the Swiss daily Tages Anzeiger writes.
Mountain enthusiasts and buses travellers will return with great enthusiasm.
But now it is expected that the major tourism operators will target Albania starting Summer 2019.
They have organized beach vacations in what was once a hermetically sealed Balkan state where dictator Enver Hoxha practiced a strange form of communism and covered his empire with thousands of bunkers.
Fearing any invasion by NATO or extraterrestrials. However, Albania has remained grounded and the tourism is growing gradually.
Nicole Pfammatter, responsible for beach vacations for "Hotelplan Suisse", confirms that the "beaches are very beautiful, prices are surprising and Albanians welcome tourists".
The hotels in Durres and Saranda, the two largest coastal areas, are all of three and four star standards.
Albania was involved in Summer vacation destinations because the airline companies Edelweiss and Germania fly secured the connection with Tirana.