CULTURAL AND HERITAGE TOURISM IN THE REGION OF GJIROKASTRA, ALBANIA

The southern Albania has many beaches for the development of mass tourism. This article describes the beach resorts and provides information that will help you to plan a vacation and enjoy the beauty of southern Albania’s coast. Changes in the southern region of Albania during the last century have been significant and noticeable. Tourism is now a mass phenomenon in southern Albania. The main objectives of the study are: To contribute to recognition as full performance of all time and space tourism; To identify the main factors that accelerates tourism;To synthesize the results of studies conducted by specialists from different disciplines and to define the main directions of activity for tourist development. The present scientific breakthroughs on the practical problems of tourism development and regulation of forms of rural areas. The importance of the study lies in: better knowledge of the condition and performance of the tourist movement in the southern region; identification of problems created by previous practices of tourism development; setting priorities and most appropriate ways to develop sustainable tourism. Proposed models for the rational use of space and natural and human resources, tourism development and guaranteeing the preservation of the environment and rural landscape values of the southern region. At the entrance of the paper is a general picture of space taken in the study, methods and methodology of field work in the office, sources of information and level of reliability data. Using the method has enabled the achievement of outcomes research, issuing findings and concrete suggestions and explained about the development of sustainable tourism in the southern region. Based on the tourist viewpoint paper analyzed the effects of natural and cultural factors in tourism development and cartographic presentation of tourist areas. Important is the impact of tourism on natural landscaping and appearance of the community the opportunity to put to use natural and cultural potentials of the region. South Country rural space is valuable tourist asset, both for the domestic market, regional and national and international alike. This property also presents particular interest because of the positioning of the region into a region with traditional tourist corridors and near major tourist movement. Southern Region provides resources for tourism development are numerous types of tourism. Southern Region provides resources for tourism development are numerous types of tourism. In a small territory varied ecosystems found, extremely rare and multiple values, which play an important role in the development of tourism. Albania's southern region offers significant potential for tourism with the possibility of involvement in the international tourist market. It is based on the strong points to build the future of tourism, mainly on: the shore of the sea, nature, culture, time and place convenient. For natural values that bear ecotourism in the southern region is unique and original.