INA VEJSIU, MERITA STAFASANI
Forest Department, Faculty of Forest Science, Agriculture University of Tirana, ALBANIA
Chemistry Department, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food, Agriculture University of Tirana, ALBANIA
e-mail: *inavejsiu@ubt.edu.al, mstafasani@ubt.edu.al
Abstract
In the last years, Albania attempted to change his legislation, making possible approach to the European Union standards. A sector which our country push his attention has been the environment sector and in particularly the biodiversity protection. In this reason the government has made several efforts on making policies in the development and management of the Protected Areas and National Parks. The tourism sector an especially ecotourism are manly new industries in the Republic of Albania. The Biodiversity is an attraction for the tourists who visit these specific areas, but is necessary to create touristic guide specialized in this sector and especially in the endemic and sub endemic species. Ecotourism sector development makes pressure in the biodiversity and therefore it requires a qualitative management because besides the economic benefits it constitutes an ongoing threat to the biodiversity in general.
Keywords: Biodiversity, ecotourism, protected areas, strategy.
