DURRËS/PEQIN etc. - Since the Albanian government declared that it will legalize individual tourism and will also tax the accommodation facilities provided with the Air Bed and Breakfast system, whose owners must be equipped with Nipt, many Albanian citizens are rushing to modify and modernize rooms and apartments to prepare for the new tourist season.
Patronageist brings to the reader's attention the figures of Instat, according to which almost 7 million tourists have visited Albania during 2023, not counting the foreigners and immigrants who will flock to the country for the end-of-year holidays.
To take advantage of the optimistic waves of this success, citizen Gjush Dako decided to repair and modernize his duplex in the coastal city of Durrës.
"I believe that next year I will be ready to host Albanian and foreign visitors in my modest environment, " Dako declared for the Patronage. He emphasized that he had engaged a talented architect and several professional installers for new electrical equipment, air conditioning systems, tiles, plumbing fixtures, etc. "If you want to do the job well, hire professionals, the good craftsmen are fleeing to Germany" , suggested Gjushi, " I jokingly call this duplex of mine, prison. Because it is relatively small, only 90 square meters, but it is comfortable. There is a sauna, billiards, gym. For an affordable price, foreign tourists will be satisfied" .
Dako indicated that numerous requests for his "prison" have also come from Albanians living in England, France, etc.
"Our compatriots have written to me that they also live in a "prison" in England or elsewhere in Europe, but they want to move to my "prison" after seeing the optimal conditions on Instagram," says Dako who can't help but smile, which suits him. very happy-go-lucky type of him.
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Citizen Ter Koka has also done various repair works in his airbnb apartment. "To remain at the top of elite tourism, it is much more difficult than just arriving at the top. Success requires sacrifices,” says Teri, who recounts how she swapped old mattresses for new anti-stress models with aloe vera, for a comfortable sleep and beautiful dreams.
"Those mattresses were no longer kept. I was ashamed of myself, that I consider myself an environmentalist. Teri, I told myself, get new ergonomic and eco-friendly mattresses, because you will leave nam. How will we reach 10 million visitors next year if we don't invest?"
Teri tells the Patronageist that many of his acquaintances, such as Fredi, Fatosi, Alqi, Lefteri, Xhevahiri, etc., have taken measures to wait for the new tourist season as well as possible. He says that he jokingly advised them: " What do you have with these apartments that look like prison cells?" Who comes here, even for a day? Adjust them a little, invest and it will return to you. How will we defeat Greek, Croatian and Montenegrin tourism, with these holes that you have? ” And they followed his advice.
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It is not only the small apartment owners of Durrës who are an example to follow. The city of Beijing has made a big surprise this year. The once modest Peqina apartments, which looked more like prison cells, now offer tourists personal mobile phones in the rooms, which they can use for as long as they like. Not only that: A modern residential block in Peqin has also built a shooting range in its surroundings, for target enthusiasts. Drone pistols even come to honored visitors; they do the shooting, and the drone guns go back where they came from.
"It is a beautiful find. This shows that even though the Albanian has been modernized and adapted to the requirements of the European Union, he still does not take the rifle out of his hand," says enthusiastically the Minister of Tourism and Patriotic Cultural Justice Hulusi Manja Karta.
Hulusiu also tells about the new projects for Beijing for the Patronageist. "To surprise the visitors, we have thought of other entertaining schemes. For example, let's hide the pistols inside the bagels of bread, milk bottles or bowls of hash, "says Manja Karta, "for example, will you take the spoon to eat hash? Fap, you get the Berretta or Sig Sauer pistol! What the hell..."
Note: Patronageist is a satirical cultural-burgistic column