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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 Durres-Golem Coastline-Autumn 1939. Following the occupation of Albania in April 1939, the Italians launched a very broad program of public works all over the territory of the country. There
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Mountains of Albania, 1940, 1960. The Empires of the 20 Centuries, irrespective of the fact that they relied on brutal force, did, however, succumb to the enticement of the
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Rome, 1941. Another component of the manouvres to create the facade of the preservation of the independence of Albania following the Italian invasion, was also the integration of the
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan lame Tirana, 1941. Llesh Topallaj, had returned towards the end of the twenties’. He was one of the closest associates of King Zog, who, on the complicated Albanian political scene,
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Give me a Break

– “Seeing I’ll be in Tirana for a week, please send me your address because I would like to pay a visit to the offices of your newspaper,” wrote, BP in an
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Rethinking Albania’s informal economy

By Ridvan Bode Over the past few years there has been growing public anxiety over the damage caused by the informal section of the economy, parallel to a re-dimensioning of this section
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A trip through the Valbona Valley

During this Summer, more than one thousand foreign tourists set up camp in the valley of the Valbona River, in Tropoja, 225 kilometers North East of Tirana. Never before have the “Cursed
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