Tourism in Albania: a statistical analysis

Tourism in Albania has experienced rapid growth in recent years and will soon be able to affirm its presence in world tourism scenarios. We study the statistics relating to foreign and domestic tourists in Albania in the 2013-2019 period, evaluating the short-term dynamics, the resulting picture and presumable future dynamics. Some results of great interest: in the period observed, the influx of international tourists arriving in Albania was on average more than 5 million people every year. During this period, the inflows of international tourists tended to grow on average by 12.0% per year until 2017, but in 2018 there was a record increase of over 16% on an annual basis. In the first six months of 2019 alone, over 2.1 million tourists were registered, with an increase of over 11% compared to the same period of 2018. The trend is clear: the future dynamics of international tourism in Albania should be largely positive.