Foreign visitors to Albania increase 16.8% y/y in Jan-Aug

The total number of foreign nationals who visited Albania in the first eight months of 2018 increased by 16.8% year-on-year to 4.4 million, the country's statistical office, INSTAT, said. The number of foreign nationals who visited Albania for the purpose of recreation increased by 12.3% on the year to 2.1 million in the period under review, INSTAT said in a statement on Monday. The largest numbers of international visitors came from Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, Italy and Montenegro, while visitors from Germany registered the sharpest year-on-year growth, of 36.9%, in the January-August period. In the month of August alone, Albania was visited by 1.45 million foreign nationals, up 26.9% year-on-year. Of the total, 958,523 came for recreational purposes, up 11.8% on August 2017.

Source: Seenews