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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.

The 5Ps of Service Excellence: A Practical Roadmap for Albanian and Western Balkan Service Providers

By Professor Alaa Garad Tirana Times, April 07, 2026 – In my earlier article for Tirana Times, I described Albania as a country that moves from being visited to being remembered. Having
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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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Discovering Lezha’s 2,400-year history

The final resting place of national hero Skanderbeg, the northern region of Lezha boasts 2,400 years of history which includes a castle dating back to the 4th century BC, and the ruins
13 years ago
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Meet the ‘Artist’ Bio Effect

‘Artist’ guarantees three key elements of eating out: no smoking, healthy bio food and high quality of service By Rudina Hoxha Who thinks that ‘transferring’ a magnificent small part of forest in
13 years ago
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Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind

Ardian Klosi (9 July 1957 – 26 April 2012) On the dawn of April 27, Albania woke up to the loss of one of its best and brightest. Sharp tongued, fearless activist
13 years ago
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An entrepreneur’s fairytale

By Ad魥 Consigny When discovering for the first time the busy Venetian Art Mask Factory of Shkodra and its 70 workers, it is hard to believe that the whole story began with
13 years ago
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