Air flights to Albania increased by 36.1% in last five months

The number of foreign nationals who have entered Albania during the month of May has been a slight increase of 0.4% compared to May of 2016.

This is a break in a very positive performance in the entry of foreigners this year, when only the first five months entered 1,321,474 foreigners, an increase of 9.5% over the previous year.

Most foreigners entered during the five months period in our country have had personal purposes, where holiday and overnight visits have entered about 393 thousand citizens, this significant figure higher than the January-May 2016 when for the same reasons our country was visited by only 268 thousand foreign nationals.

Growing at 21.5% is also the number of foreigners who come to Albania for professional or business purposes.

About 25 thousand foreigners have stated this purpose in the country’s border crossings.

But May has tested positive for airlines, which have flown into our country 107 thousand local citizens and foreigners, an increase of 36.1%.

Growth was also reported in the number of nationals entering through maritime routes with 31.9%, while entries overland dropped by 8.3%.

Italian, Greek, Montenegrin citizens and other nationalities occupy a greater place in the total of foreigners entering the country compared to last year, while the number of citizens of Kosovo entering Albania is experiencing a falling rate, in terms of this indicator.

Change has been reported in the movements of foreign and Albanian citizens abroad, a decrease of 2.1% compared with last May, partly also influenced by the campaign period.

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