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Prof. Dr. Alaa Garad is President and Founding Partner of the Stirling Centre for Strategic Learning and Innovation, University of Stirling Innovation Park, Scotland. He is actively engaged in health tourism, higher education and organisational learning across the Western Balkans, including the Global Health Tourism Leadership Programme in Albania.

Building a Trusted Health Tourism Ecosystem: Albania’s Next Competitive Advantage

by Professor Alaa Garad Tirana Times, March 17, 2026 – There are countries you visit, and there are countries you remember. Albania is rapidly becoming the latter. I began writing this article

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Behind Albania’s Collapsing Roads: Clientelism and Corruption

Tirana Times, February 12 2026 – The rapid deterioration of newly inaugurated roads and tunnels across Albania has exposed far more than technical shortcomings. What authorities have sought to explain as weather-related

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The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

Tirana Times, 08 February 2026 – The Kurum waste file has exposed one of the most serious environmental and governance scandals in Albania in recent years, revealing not only the illegal export

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INSTAT: Inflation rate hit 5-year high of 2% in 2017

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – Albania’s inflation rate hit a five-year high of 2 percent in 2017, but continued remaining below the central bank’s 3 percent target estimated to have a positive impact

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Agriculture, tourism fails to appeal to foreign investors

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TIRANA, Jan. 10 – Key sectors of the Albanian economy such as tourism and agriculture continue to remain unattractive to foreign investors in Albania who have mainly focused on energy-related projects in

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Unprepared for regional economic area, Albanian producers call for tax incentives, subsidies

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Albanian producers say the EU-backed Regional Economic Area initiative that the six Western Balkan leaders agreed to last July at the Trieste Summit will put ‘Made in Albania’

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Credit fails to recover amid poor business, consumer confidence

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TIRANA, Jan. 9 – Credit to businesses and households failed to return to positive growth rates in the first 11 months of 2017 amid poor confidence and tight lending standards fuelled by

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First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

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TIRANA, Jan. 8 – As a package of tax incentives aimed at attracting luxury tourism investment has just become effective, Sheraton Tirana, the country’s most internationally renowned brand, has left the country,

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Prolonged drought slows down Albanian economy

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TIRANA, Jan. 8 – Albania’s economy slowed down to 3.55 percent in the third quarter of the year when the country faced one of its worst droughts in decades with a negative

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Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

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TIRANA, Jan. 7 – The suspension of work at Albania’s largest oil refiner, a routine process in the past decade since its failed 2008 privatization has left hundreds of oil workers jobless

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2017 Business & Economy in review

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2017 Business & Economy in review January Relations with IMF back to advisory Albania concluded a three-year deal with the International Monetary Fund supported by a Euro 331 million loan, reducing the

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Construction permits hit 6-year high in Q3 2017

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – The number of construction permits hit a six year-high in the third quarter of 2017, when local government units issued some 310 permits worth more than Euro 100

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HPPs in protected Albania areas causing irreparable damage, Bankwatch says

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – The boom in hydropower plant construction in the past decade has put significant pressure on the environment in Albania and international financial institutions are also to blame for

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Oil workers march to Tirana to demand unpaid wages, resumption of work

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TIRANA, Dec. 28 – Hundreds of oil workers at the Ballsh oil refiner marched for about 140 km to Tirana this week to protest unpaid wages and demand the resumption of work

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Business & Economy - Page 95

Building a Trusted Health Tourism Ecosystem: Albania’s Next Competitive Advantage

Behind Albania’s Collapsing Roads: Clientelism and Corruption

The Kurum Case and the Collapse of Environmental Oversight in Albania

INSTAT: Inflation rate hit 5-year high of 2% in 2017

Agriculture, tourism fails to appeal to foreign investors

Unprepared for regional economic area, Albanian producers call for tax incentives, subsidies

Credit fails to recover amid poor business, consumer confidence

First Albania Hilton hotel set to replace surprise Sheraton Tirana departure

Prolonged drought slows down Albanian economy

Oil refiner’s tax debts mount to €135 mln after a decade of failure in private hands

2017 Business & Economy in review

Construction permits hit 6-year high in Q3 2017

HPPs in protected Albania areas causing irreparable damage, Bankwatch says

Oil workers march to Tirana to demand unpaid wages, resumption of work

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