During an interview on the "Opinion" show, Prime Minister Edi Rama emphasized that the future model of tourism development on the coast will not be what he called "camps for rich refugees."
He emphasized that the intensity of massive construction in the coastal area will be reduced and that more quality will be required.
Rama stated that the interventions that will be made will be carefully considered so that they serve the purpose of tourism that brings more income and less damage.
"Very soon we will come up with concrete things about how it will be operated later. These camps, as I can call them now, camps for wealthy refugees, will not be our future model. Everything comes in phases. If we go back a little in time and see. The first phase was Golemi and I believe that at that time it was like a much more exclusive thing. While today it is a part of the past. Then came the next phase where some higher quality constructions began, newer ones for Albania, but these are not what Albania 2030 and Albania after are. Now we will enter another phase where we will demand much more quality, we will massively reduce the intensity of construction in the coastal area. We will definitely continue to develop where there is development and we will be very careful where there is no development that whatever interventions will be made will be interventions that will go towards the function of an Albania that has a tourism that brings much more income and much less pollution, much less damage", said Rama.
Prime Minister Edi Rama stated today, September 4, that Urban Renaissance 2.0 will also affect tourism developments. Emphasis will be placed on the environment and the preservation of natural parks.
"What we will do now is that, as it has begun in the urban area, which I have called Urban Renaissance 2.0, we will also begin in the area related to tourism developments by placing a new emphasis on the environment, by placing a new emphasis on the preservation of certain areas that may not be national parks, but may be natural parks," said Rama.
He gave the Porto Palermo area as an example, which he said the government has taken under protection because there were major interests. He said that no construction will be done there and only three interventions will be made, among them to create a Cold War museum.
"An intervention that came to us as a proposal from a couple who live and work in a small place there to restore and maintain those three or four military barracks. So it's a couple who live and work there, to maintain it, to clean it, to light it. An intervention to make the Cold War museum in the tunnel and an intervention perhaps later for the barracks in the military part, but without building resorts, villas. Some surface area can be added for their function," said Rama.
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