The tourism consumption, a special economic category of the final demand in Albania and in the countries of the region

Tourism is an international activity which includes a combination of economic, political, environmental and social factors whose consequences are becoming more and more complex, controversial and which emerge in delicate and unexpected ways. Today tourism is characterized by a development which is not only continuous but also sensitive to rapidly-changing attitudes. The effects of tourism are multifaceted: economic, social, natural or environmental, political, and cultural. In this article we will talk about the effects of the development of tourism on the international and total tourism consumption regarding Albania accompanied with empirical data and a comparison of their respective statistics. We will also try to study the effect of financial crisis on the international tourism consumption in Albania. All the data have been collected from INSTAT and Travel & Tourism Economic Impact 2012, for the time period 2006-2012. The number of visitors to Albania after 2000 has been increasing and consequently the positive impact of tourism on total consumption has become stronger. Nevertheless, after 2006, Albania shows strong fluctuations in tourism consumption compared to other countries in the region. This is due to the fact that Albania is a relatively new destination in the development of tourism market

Raising Farm Efficiency through the Use of ICT

ICT has revolutionized the way of doing business. Nowadays the use of ICT is present in different disciplines and areas of economy. In this paper it will be discussed theoritically and empirically on the advantages of ICT use in the field of agriculture. Considering the actual conditions that the Albanian farms operate in market today, applying a new web is proposed. Thus it will be possible for promotion to happen, which has been absent so far, as well as marking of product that is being made. The system allows every farmer to have access on it by creating a personal account. By using it, each farmer can do any marketing, give information on the product, set the price and compare his prices with the ones of his competitors in real time, deliver the product selling it directly to the last consumer or set links with mediators, and a farmer can even search the market by analysing the input data that the web receives. This multifunctional system, which enables the two way communication, will be set up by using the main programming language that is PHP. The programming is based on one template. The screens programming is based on html5 and CSS3 language. The database used is my SQL and its area of use is php my admin. The programming was made with waterfall model. Once using this system, the farmer comes out of isolation together with the product he offers and he can advertise the product at a low cost, as we think of offering this system for free, thus taking the first steps towards building a ‘win win’ system for the customer, who is introduced to the local products, with the product location, and with a farmer who is better informed on the market. But even the state as well as the regional agriculture institutions will have a clear image and a first step towards the agricultural products commerce, thus leaving behind a difficult situation for now and a long time in Albania with an agriculture sector growing but with few markets