This competition aims to promote Albania as a tourist destination through photo & video reels created by the visitors themselves.

The first edition was a real success, attracting participants from 42 countries around the world and enabling the beauty of Albania to be shared with a global audience.

The agency invites citizens to participate in Wanderlust in Albania to show their emotions while exploring Albania as a tourist destination.

With participation in 11 categories, there is a place for every attraction that visitors have photographed or filmed.

The categories are landscapes, panoramic photos (Albanian cities, tourist villages); monuments & archaeological sites (cultural monuments, castles, amphitheaters, museums and UNESCO sites); folklore (ethnography, dance, ritual, traditions); handicrafts & crafts; Agrotourism & Culinary (traditional food, guesthouses, agrotourism); TEA app events (festivals, local celebrations, concerts, artistic events, exhibitions, etc.); Ecotourism & Sports Tourism (flora & fauna, trails, parks, hiking, diving, mountaineering, kayaking, parachuting, etc.); Architecture (mosque, church, medieval and new urban architecture); Photo-reportage (news photo, narrating events from life); 3D Animation (CGI).

A professional jury selected exclusively for this competition, with Albanian and international members, will select the most attractive photos and videos.

The competition jury will announce winners from 3 categories:

“Contributors to the promotion of Albanian tourism”: According to 11 categories of photos and video reels, 33 competitors will be announced winners, who will be awarded a prize of 20,000 (twenty thousand) lekë each. The names of the winners will be listed on the official websites of the National Tourism Agency: akt.gov.al and albania.al

“Ambassador in the promotion of Albanian tourism”: This title will be awarded to 4 winners whose 10+ photographs and/or reels have been selected as the most attractive by the jury. Each of them will be awarded a prize of 50,000 (fifty thousand) lekë.

“Online voting”: From the online votes of the public via the official Facebook pages (National Tourism Agency and Visit Albania), 3 winners will be selected for the most attractive photograph, reel and CGI creation. The winners will be awarded a prize of 30,000 (thirty thousand) lekë each. /k.s/j.p/p.s./