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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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What’s in a name?

By Frank Ledwidge It was all a very long time ago. New York is named after the Northern English city of York. The name ‘York’ is very ancient, a contraction of the
18 years ago
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A Unique Exhibition

A unique collection of works of the internationally recognized artist, Victor Vasarely, (1908-1997) will arrive to Tirana on June 18 to offer to the Albanian public an exceptional opportunity for an insight
18 years ago
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Bottom Of Form

This essay is an excerpt from the recently published anthology, “The Maternal Is Political,” by Shari MacDonald Strong. In May of 1999 I flew from Budapest into Tirana, the desiccated capital of
18 years ago
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Pastor and his flock head to Albania

By Avantika Bhargava A PASTOR will be travelling with his flock to one of the poorest countries in Europe to renovate schools. Tom Price, 40, and 15 other members of Wroughton Assemblies
18 years ago
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Nuclear reactor in Albania?!

By Altin Fuga afuga@tiranatimes.com Tirana, 1 April 2008. In an interview in the Italian daily, Il Sole 24 ORE, former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Giulio Tremonti called for the building
18 years ago
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The spring of Francophony

The Francophony month commenced on 17 March 2007 and is going to continue until 20 April. The President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy and the General Secretary of Francophony, Abdou Diouf (former President
18 years ago
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Play it again, Susi!

By Alba ȥla Wonderful sounds, a playful performance on stage, a friendly jazz trio from Denmark lit up what would have otherwise been the conventional dragging Monday evening. Susi Hyldgaard (singer, piano,
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