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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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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Albania,1917. What we call World War I today today was known at the time as “The Great War.” However, on seeing that another World War of even larger proportions
18 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, 29 November 1979. There are many aspects of Albanian life that failed to survive the epoch of democracy, but we would be hard pressed to find an aspect
18 years ago
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Kosova, a dream comes true

I was there. When the Prime Minister of Kosova read the historical declaration of freedom and independence I was there on the streets cheering up, singing until we all lost our voices
18 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Kruja, around about the twenties’. Kruja is one of those Albanian towns, where life has continued uninterruptedly since early in the Middle Ages through to our days. Nevertheless, it
18 years ago
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Banking sector in Albania: dynamic realities

The banking system in Albania has gone through the transition periods influenced by the monetary collapse at the end of the communist era, the collapse of the fraud pyramid investment schemes, as
18 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana in the 20’s-30’s. Prior to the 19th Century public games were not a usual occurrence and even less so in Moslem countries. In our country, groups of wandering
18 years ago
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Rapping with a proud Albanian

By Mark Mardell This week Today and PM are broadcasting my radio reports on my Balkans trip. One of the frustrations of radio or TV is that you can find someone who
18 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Albania at the beginning of the 20th Century. There exists an urban legend which upholds that the very first automobile to arrive in Albania was brought here in the
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