A tourism-fed construction boom is underway along the nation's hundreds of miles of pristine coastline, and the new developments need water -- lots of it. This has sparked a fight that echoes others ...

Green Coast, is an ultra-modern landmark development in Albania, representing a remarkable investment of over 1 billion euros. Albania stands out among European countries, demonstrating some of the ...

The first-ever long weekend holiday to Albania ended badly. We 20 or so pioneers had paid (I recall) £295 for a package that included flights from Heathrow via Zagreb to Titograd – now Podgorica, in ...

TriGranit, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest property development company, aims to build a huge tourist resort from scratch on Albania’s northwestern coast. Although seeing a steady growth in the ...

Whether the idea of visiting Croatia began with a love of Game of Thrones or by stumbling across photo after photo of the breathtaking, island-studded Adriatic coast, the Balkans have become a ...

On City Beach in Saranda it’s hard to find a space to lay down a towel among all the others on the stony beach, whose owners are either stretched out soaking up the sun or bobbing about in the clear ...

As Albania sees a surge in visitors, foreign workers, mainly from the Philippines, are filling staff shortages. Albania's tourism boom has pushed up demand for staff in the sector. But because workers ...

After three years of booming tourism figures, 2025 shows a marked slowdown in visitors’ arrivals and revenues in Albania. Although slowing down, numbers remain impressive for the small Balkan country ...

Hurtling down the freeway from Tirana along the snaking Albanian coastline, it feels hard to believe that this country was closed off from the world around it just three decades ago. Benny, the name ...

Tourism has exploded in this tiny European country in a way few expected (Picture: Getty/Alice Murphy) In the ninth installment of Metro Travel Hot Takes, Travel Editor Alice Murphy recalls her visit ...

Brataj, Albania: The Shushica River's sparkling emerald waters wind a spectacular course through southern Albania that activists say is now at risk from a project that would divert a portion of its ...