The Minister of Culture, Elva Margariti, has considered 2023 a good year for cultural tourism. This is based on the figures made public recently, where it seems that the year 2023 has exceeded the figures of 2019, before the pandemic started.

“The number of visitors to museums, archaeological parks, castles and monuments experienced a significant increase, surpassing the best year, that of 2019,” the minister wrote on social networks, giving the statistics of visitors from year to year.

For the period January-December 2023, national museums were visited by 391,608 local and foreign tourists. For the same period, the visitors’ number in archaeological parks reached 342,824, while forts and other cultural monuments were visited by 271,383 visitors.

According to statistics published these days, the large influx of foreign tourists, including local visitors, brought more than 342 million ALL in revenue from the sale of tickets to cultural institutions.

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