FLASH
Shkruar nga Kreshnik Spahiu
Without functional sewage systems, a large portion of coastal cities dump sewage and feces into the sea.
Northern Europe emerged from a long and one of the coldest winters in 20 years yesterday.
A harsh winter means for Germans, French, Poles, Dutch and Scandinavians a hunger and a need for long holidays in the sun.
For these reasons, millions of northern and eastern European tourists will flock to the shores of the Mediterranean.
But why isn't Albania preparing for a tourist season?
This year finds Albania's tourism industry in a totally chaotic state. No state, political or media segment is seriously investing in infrastructure, logistics, environment, cleanliness, trade or economy to improve the tourism industry.
The year 2026 is finding Albania:
-Without the port of Durrës, half-destroyed. It was promised to be like “Dubai”, with luxurious palaces and marinas, but the port has remained a black hole of foundations and mud.
-Without the promised Tirana-Durres railway, which was said to be completed in 2026, but is not expected to be completed even in 2036.
-Without the Vlora airport, which was promised to open in June, but was seized by the court.
-Without the Kukës airport, which was opened with great fanfare for immigrants, but today is almost out of order.
-Without serious investments in Albania's roads, where many segments have been blocked by landslides.
-Without the completion of the four-lane expansion of the Tirana-Durres highway, which seems not to be finished even in 2040. With unreasonable prices in supermarkets, which have increased up to three times more than in Germany or Spain.
-Without safe road traffic, where every tourist hesitates to rent a car because of the congested roads and the idiotic drivers who drive like crazy.
-Without cleaning the territory, with one of the most polluted coastlines in Europe.
-Without cleaning the rivers, where thousands of tons of plastic are dumped into the sea.
-Without cleaning the sea waters, where according to the European Environment Agency (EEA), after laboratory analyses, Albania was listed last year as one of the countries with the most polluted sea waters.
-Without functional sewage systems, where a large part of coastal cities dump sewage and feces into the sea.
At the end of all these government failures, comes political humiliation. Foreign media have been reporting for months about tensions, fires and Molotov cocktails at opposition protests.
Such images do not bring down a government, but they damage Albania's image and remove it from the tourist map, just as happened in 1997, when the country was isolated for decades from European integration.
Berisha knows very well that Rama is not overthrown with 20 bottles of gasoline by burning garbage cans, but Albania's image is set on fire very quickly. A mentally ill old man fights with the principle: "After me, let the qamet be done".
This year has started more gloomy than ever for Albania.
This summer risks no longer attracting foreign tourists. Fewer and fewer Italians or Spaniards and more and more workers from Bangladesh and the Philippines. Albanian cities are no longer able to attract European citizens.
Airbnb apartments used to cost 50 euros a night; today the price has dropped to 17–25 euros, because demand has fallen.
Albanians risk losing millions of euros this year from the decline in tourism, and I hope that responsibility will not remain an orphan. Ignorance has taken over society.
We are perhaps the only people on the planet who deserve not only the government, but also the opposition that we have.
Shprehja,paragrafi i fundit asht plotesisht i sakte. NE PORDHPULLI meritojme keto Pordhitikane sepse aq asht NIVELI i yne. Perfshi edhe AKADEM-lypsat qe te squllur nga pazotesia dhe nenshtrimi,nuk PIPETIJNE.
Ti more lum djali besoj qe e di atje ku rri zotrote e merret uji i lumit qe ka fekale, filtrohet e futet ne tubacionet e qytetit ku perdoret per gatim, pirje, larje e cdo gje. Te gjithe keta "super shtetet" qe e kane hunden perpjete ku i cojne ujerat ne gazan te gjelles!? Kur me thane Londinezet qe keshtu e keshtu e manipulojme ujin e cesmes mu rrenqeth trupi e kur u thashe qe ne e marrim ujin me tubacione nga burimi nuk me besuan e kur bene kerkime mbeten si te dhjere. Vetem mend dine te japin sharlatanet juriste, doktorre, financiere por se si behet ekonomi me teknologji nuk ia thone fare. Sa kushton nje pallat ose nje automjet e dine inxhinieret por ekonomistet e juristet dine qe 10 pallate ose 10 makina kushtojne $ x 10, kaq. Na mbyten shurranjoset me koken bosh. Ku i kini inxhinieret apo i zhduket bashke me industrine.