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Litho- and biostratigraphy of the Firza Flysch, Ophiolite Mirdita nappe, Albania
No full textThe lithostratigraphical features and recent discoveries of calcareous nannofossils from the Firza Flysch, Mirdita region (northern Albania) are reported. The Firza Flysch, with the Simoni (=Mirdita) Melange, represents the sedimentary sequences overlying the Albanian ophiolites. The Firza Flysch can be roughly subdivided in three members: the lower member is characterized by the prevalence of ophiolite-derived pebbly sandstones and mudstones, whereas the middle and upper members show calcareous and mixed composition turbidites. Nannofossils imply uppermost Tithonian-late Valanginian age of whole sequence of the Firza Flysch. The collected data suggest the Firza Flysch deposits may be derived from erosion of the Albanian ophiolites during their Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous tectonics. Age and characteristics of the Firza Flysch can be correlated with the ophiolite-derived deposits from neighbour ophiolite belts of Bosnia and Greece
Sustainable tourism: The case of Albania
No full textThanks to the constant growth of tourism over the years, the tourism sector
in Albania has shown a great potential for attractiveness from 2013 onwards. A
territory made up of mountain ranges and surrounded by stretches of beautiful coasts,
its richness consists in the varied biodiversity of flora and fauna. The challenge for
the near future is to maintain the results obtained so far and to increase the
competitiveness of tourism in the long term. These objectives must pass through the
construction of sustainable tourism which is the key to impress and affirm its
presence in the European and world tourism scenarios. Sustainable tourism must be
supported by constant monitoring of the local and territorial reality and the
construction of sustainability indicators as the directives of sustainable tourism for
Europe advocate. The work deals with the construction of some specific
sustainability indicators of the sector under the aspect of statistical methodology. To
measure the level of sustainability, we start from four main indicators, namely
destination management, economic value, social impact and environmental impact.
These indicators will be adapted to the Albanian territory
Sustainable development tourism
No full textThe goal of the United Nations 2030 agenda is sustainable development. Sustainable tourism starts with governments, businesses and other stakeholders who should support social, environmental, cultural and economic sustainability in destinations. When is a destination called sustainable? How is a European destination sustainable? What is being done in Albania to achieve the goal of sustainable development in tourism? We will try to give answers with a statistical analysis, taking for example virtuous European and Italian destinations
Sustainable Tourism: Destination Management
No full textAlbania is strategically positioned in the Mediterranean and this country in the Balkans has embarked on a complex economic development and aims to become part of the European Union. One of the leading sectors of the land of eagles is tourism. What is the context in which Albania finds itself in order to implement a system of indicators for the relaunch of tourism? In a previous work [1], we started talking about the sustainability indicators that the European Union has made available to tourist destinations as a guideline. This European guideline must be adapted to the territory under study.
A territory must be attractive for tourism from many points of view and above all it must be able to convey hospitality, its traditions, culinary culture, etc. to visitors. In short, its strengths that we will calculate through socio-economic data of its residents. In this way, each territorial district (Qarqe) will have a placement of "tourist attractiveness": the starting point for building the System of European In- dicators for Tourism. The initial data are processed through cluster analysis to divide the territory into groups with similar characteristics and use this information as a decision tool for a national recovery and resilience policy
Destination Management
No full textAlbania is strategically positioned in the Mediterranean and this country in the Balkans has embarked on a complex economic development and aims to become part of the European Union. One of the leading sectors of the land of eagles is tourism. What is the context in which Albania finds itself in order to implement a system of indicators for the relaunch of tourism? In the previous work [1], we started talking about the sustainability indicators that the European Union has made available to tourist destinations as a guideline. This European guideline must be adapted to the territory under study.
A territory must be attractive for tourism from many points of view and above all it must be able to convey hospitality, its traditions, culinary culture, etc. to visitors. In short, its strengths that we will calculate through socio-economic data of its residents. In this way, each territorial district (Qarqe) will have a placement of "tourist attractiveness": the starting point for building the System of European Indicators for Tourism. The initial data are processed through cluster analysis to divide the territory into groups with similar characteristics and use this information as a decision tool for a national recovery and resilience policy
Eco-sustainable tourism and social well-being: A statistical analysis
No full textThe tourism sector has had a significant stop, closely related to the pandemic that has hit the world hard. Tourism is expected to restart which this time includes greater attention to sustainability for each single segment of the sector's supply chain.
In Italy, sustainable tourism is leveraged, highlighting the individual territorial and cultural characteristics, experiential tourism, naturalistic tourism and so on. In this first work, we want to focus on what the conditions of the country are for a feasibility study projected at the forefront of sustainable tourism and the ETIS indicators proposed by the European Union.
The work proposes the measurement and construction of sustainability indicators in the context of innovative tourism that embraces eco-environmental sustainability in its various facets in a city context. The aim of this work is to implement experiential tourism linked to nutrition and food in agricultural typification areas located in the metropolitan urban fabric to support the tourism sector so hard hit by the pandemic.
Sustainable tourism must be supported by constant monitoring of the territorial and local reality and by the construction of sustainability indicators as the directives of sustainable tourism for Europe advocate. This work proposes the construction of some specific sustainability indicators of the sector under the aspect of statistical methodology. For this purpose, we will use a factor analysis that will best define the construction of composite indicators
Tourism in Albania: a statistical analysis
No full textTourism 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
An agglomerative hierarchical clustering method for text in Albanian
No full textNowadays, big data is available in many areas of science, so the need to summarize data sets into groups and extract information is important. Using the cluster analysis technique, we can explore such data based on their similarity. The degree of similarity in the data is quantitatively represented by distance functions.
In this paper, using Ward’s method of cosine distance in a database with 100 Albanian texts into 16 different clusters based on the frequency of words, with 87 percent of texts well classified by author
Perspectives for sustainable tourism in Albania
No full textThe growing trend of tourism in Albania, if we remove the parenthesis on the pandemic, has registered a rapid surge in tourists in recent years and has highlighted a great potential that the sector has acquired, which will soon be able to assert its presence in the scenarios of the world tourism. In order to be able to compete for such a coveted position, it is necessary to follow the stages of sustainable tourism and what is the state of the art of the sector in an increasingly green and sustainable context towards the habitat that surrounds us. The proposed work highlights the efforts both in terms of policies implemented by the government for sustainable tourism and in terms of responses that have been given by the same structures in the sector in order to interact with tourism increasingly based on good practices regarding enhancement of the territory. We analyzed the data before the pandemic, period 2013-2019 with a perspective of territorial sustainability both for summer tourism and for cultural and religious tourism and even for health tourism, one of the new frontiers cleared in Albania. Starting from some tangible results, the influx of international tourists continued to grow on average by 12.0% per year until 2017 to reach a peak of over 16% on an annual basis in 2018, we want to highlight the impact of sustainable solutions to increase the added value to the tourism sector
Corruption and Emigration in the Western Balkans: Key Facts and Statistics.
No full textThis work is focused on the phenomena of corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans (WBs) over the
years from 2012 to 2022. Corruption remains a serious problem for WB societies and authorities. The high levels of
corruption in WB countries threaten economic growth, increase inequality, discourage investments, and cause stress and
frustration among citizens. As a consequence, a relevant portion of the populations considers emigration as the only viable
alternative
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