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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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From Albania with love

It’s a cold January evening and the lights around the center of Tirana flicker just before the usual evening power cut. At the same time, the lights in the Balsha room of
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame The 20-ties. This is also Albania. It is an undeniable fact that Albania of the first decades of the 20th Century, had very little to be envied from the
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A love story amongst the Uighurs

None of them arouse the curiosity of the locals in the streets of the village of Babruu (on the outskirts of Tirana), any more. The eight Chinese citizens have shaven off their
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana,1941. Towards the end of the ‘thirties, Sk쯤er Luarasi, one of the finest architects of this country of the first half of the 20th Century was commissioned to build
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Time to get together

By Alba ȥla The manager of one of the trendiest pubs in Tirana was complaining yesterday. -This is impossible! One cannot change a reservation from 16 to 28 people so easily. When
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, 1925. I noticed that last week’s edition left a feeling of sadness among many people with all its rags and poverty. So this time, allow me to paint
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Christmas in Albania

By Alba Cela Near my home, there is an American family who lives here since three years and they have a little son, David. In an email to his friends back home,
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The Spanish EU model

Jerina Zaloshnja from Tirana Times interviewed H.E. Manuel Montobbio, the Ambasador of Kingdom of Spain in Albania on the Spanish model of integration, Spanish projects in Albania, etc. Q-You are the first
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana, June 1939. Its two months since the invasion of Albania by Italy. Italy has established a new regime in the country and work is in full swing to
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The global dimension

The TI survey concludes that corruption is a worldwide problem with people, despite their different original countries, believing that “the authority vested in institutions that ought to represent the public interest is,
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Taking the comparative standpoint

While Albania is devising new verbal strategies to cope with the report, other countries have taken the right comparative approach in analyzing the results. Across the world mass media have had different
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