TIRANA, March 19/ATA/ “The fabulous beauties that no one trampled on, today have turned into a hospitable town for foreign visitors and tourists, to help businesses with products of the area, an undeniable example of Urban Renaissance, from north to south,” said today Prime Minister Edi Rama, bringing images and evidence from the citizens of Puka.
From the hell of a degraded urban space, to the paradise hidden among the Alps. The city of Puka has become today one of the most special tourist attractions of the North, increasingly reflecting the transformative power of the Urban Renaissance.
The regeneration of the central promenade, the rehabilitation of the facades, the rehabilitation of the lake that was formerly a pond of infection and hospital waste, brought to light all the attractiveness of this city that today has entered the path of social and economic development.
Immediately after this epochal momentum for the history of Puka, the number of tourists increased by 40%, not a little, but 10 accommodation units of the type hostels and hotels were added to Puka, doubling the accommodation capacities.
With the regeneration of the central promenade in Puka, 20 new businesses were opened in the area and for the first time over 7 million ALL were invested for the renovation of facilities, bars, restaurants and tourist enterprises.
The already increased economic activity led to a 20% increase in employment in the city and a significant increase by 35% in the number of employees throughout Puka.
“I was lucky to be on the first Albanian expedition to Everest and since then I had the idea to create inns. I was given the opportunity to create not only my hostel, but also hostels in Valbona and Theth, to be one of the promoters of hostels in Albania and with investments in the city, with this total change of Puka, it turned out that this is one of the businesses most successful and as you can see for yourself in Hani, in my guesthouse, there is a very large influx and a very large activity “, stressed the owner of the guesthouse Përparim Laçi.
“The need arose to fix the ski slope as well. The ski slope has been a short one there, without damaging the forest. “This has been the place of opportunities to make the ski slope and this year, as it is in Shkorrëz, we thought to do it in Puka as well”, he emphasized.
“I think you do not hear any Puka people to go to Tirana anymore,” he said.
Dedë Morina, from the Father Mhill Troshani Center said that, “there is a radical change. This should be seen by the right, the left. I am not interested in politics, but I am interested in the development of the country. Puka has never had such a development in her life “./ j.p / r.e /p.s./
