UK Agency Offers 'Special Weekend In Kosovo’
Pristina | 06 February 2009 |
Regent Holidays Kosovo Brochure
A London-based travel company has launched the first package tour of Kosovo, offering a ₤555 long weekend taking in Kosovo's "Ottoman-era mosques and hammam complexes, medieval Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries, and beautiful countryside." "As one of the newest countries in Europe, Kosovo is now generally considered a safe place to visit," says Regent Holidays in the only reference to Kosovo's trouble recent history, which includes years of unrest, a war, and an acrimonious secession from Serbia a year ago.
Kosovo's "capital Prishtina is currently being regenerated at great speed," it says, "Some of its highlights are the jewelry and costumes on show at the Emin Gjiku Ethnographic Museum, a beautifully preserved Ottoman townhouse in the centre, as well as the coffee, which our local partners claim that the best macchiato in the world can be found the cafes of Prishtina!"
Including pictures of people in colourful traditional costume and verdant mountain scenery, the brochure sticks to the Albanian spelling of place names, in contrast to most international bodies that go out of their way to be politically correct by using both Albanian and Serbian spellings.
Excursions include "many of the must-sees in Kosovo like the Drini Valley and Canyon, Gjakova Old Town, Decani Monastery and Ethnographic Museum" , and visitors will get to sample "many delicious traditional lunches and dinners."
TPD Consulting, Regent's local travel partner, said they were very pleased with the offer, “the first tourist package for Kosovo which includes traditional and modern tourist elements."
"We don’t have enough capacity to support the large numbers who want to visit Kosovo through this package”, said Zeke Ceku, head of TPD Consulting.
Most of the people visiting Kosovo at the moment are expatriate Albanians returning home for holidays and family occasions, as well as the large numbers of foreigners working in the international bodies that have supervised the territory since the end of the 1998-99 war. The government hopes to use its off-the-beaten-track allure to attract more independent travelers, and Kosovo’s Ministry of Tourism will have its owns stand for the first time in the EMMIT 2009 Tourism Fair in Istanbul.
(Reporting by Vjosa Musliu)
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so jetzt können die Touristen kommen
davon könnte jeder profitieren, auch die Serben
Pristina | 06 February 2009 |
Regent Holidays Kosovo Brochure
A London-based travel company has launched the first package tour of Kosovo, offering a ₤555 long weekend taking in Kosovo's "Ottoman-era mosques and hammam complexes, medieval Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries, and beautiful countryside." "As one of the newest countries in Europe, Kosovo is now generally considered a safe place to visit," says Regent Holidays in the only reference to Kosovo's trouble recent history, which includes years of unrest, a war, and an acrimonious secession from Serbia a year ago.
Kosovo's "capital Prishtina is currently being regenerated at great speed," it says, "Some of its highlights are the jewelry and costumes on show at the Emin Gjiku Ethnographic Museum, a beautifully preserved Ottoman townhouse in the centre, as well as the coffee, which our local partners claim that the best macchiato in the world can be found the cafes of Prishtina!"
Including pictures of people in colourful traditional costume and verdant mountain scenery, the brochure sticks to the Albanian spelling of place names, in contrast to most international bodies that go out of their way to be politically correct by using both Albanian and Serbian spellings.
Excursions include "many of the must-sees in Kosovo like the Drini Valley and Canyon, Gjakova Old Town, Decani Monastery and Ethnographic Museum" , and visitors will get to sample "many delicious traditional lunches and dinners."
TPD Consulting, Regent's local travel partner, said they were very pleased with the offer, “the first tourist package for Kosovo which includes traditional and modern tourist elements."
"We don’t have enough capacity to support the large numbers who want to visit Kosovo through this package”, said Zeke Ceku, head of TPD Consulting.
Most of the people visiting Kosovo at the moment are expatriate Albanians returning home for holidays and family occasions, as well as the large numbers of foreigners working in the international bodies that have supervised the territory since the end of the 1998-99 war. The government hopes to use its off-the-beaten-track allure to attract more independent travelers, and Kosovo’s Ministry of Tourism will have its owns stand for the first time in the EMMIT 2009 Tourism Fair in Istanbul.
(Reporting by Vjosa Musliu)
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so jetzt können die Touristen kommen
davon könnte jeder profitieren, auch die Serben