TIRANA, Feb 12 /ATA/ – A growing number of emigrants recently returning back home are investing their savings in various business projects on the tourism sector in particular.
The Minister of Tourism and Environment Mirela Kumbaro on Sunday visited one of the newest restaurants opened most recently by an emigrant upon his return from Greece in the town of Belsh, central Albanian region of Elbasan.
“Next stop the ‘Oazi’ amid the nature’s oasis in Belsh, the newest restaurant recently opened by Arsen, who returned back home after amassing valuable experience from 18 years of hard work as cook in Crete, Greece, and decided to invest in his hometown,” Kumbaro wrote on the social media.
Belsh is increasingly becoming a green tourism destination.
Arsen’s family has joined forces to provide the area’s best culinary tradition by masterfully combining traditional food recipes with novelties stemming from the long experience of work in the kitchen,
Albania was visited by 7.5 million foreign tourists in 2022, up 32.6% compared with the previous year, according to the National Institute of Statistics, INSTAT.
Domestic tourists rose 39.1% on the year to nearly 5.5 million in 2022, the statistical office said in a statement.
Overall, the total number of domestic and foreign tourists reached 13 million in 2022, up 35.3% from a year earlier.
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