Albania aims to attract 10 million tourists by 2025, the Albanian Minister of Tourism and Environment Blendi Klosi declared on Thursday on World Tourism Day.

According to Klosi, the Albanian government has a tourism development plan which will focus on four main directions related to co-operation with local government, service improvement, investment in infrastructure and marketing.

Official data from the National Institute of Statistics show that up to now during the month of September, Albania has received 606,000 tourists, about 31 percent more compared with the same period last year, according to Klosi. In addition, in March 2018, the number of foreign citizen arrivals to the territory of Albania during the first two months of 2018, was 422,869 persons, increasing by 18 percent compared with the same period of 2017. 

Albania and China have huge untapped potential to cooperate in the tourism sector, which has turned into a top priority for the Albanian government. According to the Albanian minister of tourism, Chinese citizens can enter Albania without a visa from April 1 to October 31, 2018. 

(Cover: The coast in Albania /VCG Photo)