Agrotourism might help decreasing poverty and unemployment in rural areas in Albania

Agrotourism, a component so far lacking in the tourism industry in Albania, will receive a special boost thanks to the government's support.

Agrotourism, a component so far lacking in the tourism industry in Albania, will receive a special boost thanks to the government's support.

Present at the inauguration of the 2nd edition of the "Mediterranean Tourism Fair, Tirana 2018", Prime Minister Edi Rama stopped at the agrotourism promotion program in Albania.

"This program will be supported financially by both the Albanian government and the EC fund, while until the last week of the month we will make public the other aspect, the facilities we will create for all those entrepreneurs, individuals or families that will aim to build agro-tourism structures in the entire rural area of ​​Albania, "said Rama.

Rising to these investments and the involvement of entrepreneurs and families, according to Rama, "will definitely bring about the creation of a chain effect to give a very clear message of the growth potential of the household in the village."

"Agrotourism will develop all those points where farming and livestock farming are impossible, but the wonderful nature and the opportunity to host a tradition-based infrastructure and offering all the local products make a safe way out of the clutches poverty and unemployment in those areas, "Rama added.