accessible and the individual transportation took more terrain in transportation, by becoming during the 60’s the main favorable mean of transportation. Vacations in the Model of ‘Sea, Sun and Sand’ became preferred among all the populations, while it contributed to the other stage of Tourism, known as the ‘expansion of tourism’. The Summer Vacations, already a lifestyle, would become the incentive for the construction of numerous holiday resorts, by re-considering the spatial form of accommodation. Globalized Tourism has reached its peak a few decades ago, transforming the concept of distances and spaces in the mind of today’s citizen. The need for traveling and experiencing different places and cultures has been generally accepted as a form of education. The combination with the digital age, has facilitated all the process of preparing the details of the trips regarding transportation, accommodation, other activities and tours planned, which on the other hand has produced negative side effects in terms of environmental pollution, diffusion of cultures and identities, congestion etc. Regarding the accommodation sector, the liberty in the hospitality has created paths and opportunities to offer diverse accommodation types, flexibility and affordability, while searching for different alternatives, which also creates space for designers and architects, to re-define the ‘Hotels’ of today.
3.2 Evolution of the concept of Tourism in Albania, through the lenses of history It is through the conditions of history and more significantly through the manifestation of the political systems power, that the history of Tourism in Albania has taken place. This important drive has actually behaved more like a boundary for the development of tourism, whiles also used in the benefit of the ideologies in which they were created, regardless their primary function.
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