The Minister of Tourism and Environment, Mirela Kumbaro, invited to the "Wake Up" show, has clarified the post she made a few days earlier on social networks, where she announces that after 19:00 the sunbeds will be free.
She says that she has not posted such an announcement on her social networks and it is all a photomontage.
Journalist: Just as there is good advertising, there is also bad, social networks have everything in hand today and it has become viral recently, a post where you say that after 19:00 sunbeds will be free, is there anything true here?
Mirela Kumbare: Where is this post of mine?
Journalist: So it's a montage, you say?
Mirela Kumbare : This is a photomontage that never existed, that I never posted, that I never said, and I am very sorry to take time and space to deal with another defamation. Thanks so much for giving me this opportunity, I just ignored it on the weekend when it went around. It's just a fake montage that never existed. The photo we see is taken from my Instagram page, it's not Himara at all. There is a public beach in Saranda, the Municipality of Saranda, I find the opportunity to thank it and once, it was the first to start the model of a public beach, organized by the municipality with umbrellas and sunbeds placed by the municipality, free of charge for vacationers who want to swim on a public beach and not on a managed beach.
Minister Kumbaro also commented on the great boom that tourism has experienced in Albania year after year, where it is attracting more and more foreign tourists. She states that the evolution of tourism in Albania is the result of monthly and annual work by social, economic, government and private sector factors. Equally important according to her is promotion and social networks.
"It is an evolution that has come gradually from one year to the next. There is a significant, visible, tangible improvement of the image of Albania, which does not happen in a day, but happens as a result of a monthly and annual work of all these social and economic factors, of the government, of the municipalities , of the private sector who are emancipated by emancipating all of Albania. Second, this image enhancement is the best promotion and ambassador we can have. Social networks have been a very good advocate for Albania, whether on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok", says Mirela Kumbaro.