About the project
Albania Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Albania, written in English for people planning a trip from abroad. It has been published since June 2026 and now runs to over 140 guides: attractions, cities, food, ready-made routes, transport, car rental, insurance and trip planning.
The guide is built around one rule: every number a reader might act on is traced to the page of the operator who sets it, and the date of that check is printed on the article. Below is how topics are picked, how figures are checked, where the photos come from and how the site is made.
How topics are chosen
Topics come from demand, not from a random walk through the country. We look at what travelers search for before an Albania trip - how to get from Tirana airport to the coast, whether a visa is needed, what a rental car costs with the deposit, which ferry crosses Lake Koman - and write the guide that answers that question in full.
Where a guide is about places, a place gets in only when it rates well across several independent sources. A good score on one platform with silence or complaints elsewhere is not a consensus, and we leave it out. We do not reprint platform ratings or review counts: their rules forbid copying, and the current score is one click away on the map.
How every number is checked
A price, a timetable, a distance or a date in our text is only as good as the page it came from. So each number is traced to the operator’s own site: for Albania that is most often akt.gov.al (the national tourism agency), tirana-airport.com, komanilakeferry.com, bankofalbania.org for exchange rates and dajtiekspres.com for the Dajti cable car. The link and the date of the check sit in the article’s source list.
Aggregators, booking marketplaces and other people’s blogs aren’t treated as sources: they’re where a number gets copied, not where it is set. Before publication an automated check looks for each figure on the operator page cited for it and stops the build if a number is not found there. Prices still drift, so treat them as a snapshot from the check date and confirm the amount that matters to you before you pay.
Photos and sources
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons, with the author and license named under every frame. We don’t lift images from booking sites or social media, and a frame is not recycled between guides under different names.
The source list at the foot of each article names the pages the figures were checked against, so you can open the same timetable or tariff yourself. Where a fact has no operator page, such as the history of a site, we cite reference works like the UNESCO World Heritage List and Wikipedia rather than travel blogs.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, directs the work, checks the result against the sources and decides what gets published. The date of the last check is printed on every article, and a guide goes back for another check when a reader reports a change.
Albania Guidebook is one of a family of twelve country guides run by the same publisher on one editorial system, so the rules above are the same in each of them. The project is run by A. Kobtsev, whose name is in the footer of every page.
How the project is funded
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, we get a small commission from the service. The price for you stays the same - and the project exists and is updated on these funds.
Partnership doesn’t affect selection: a place or a service makes it into the guide for its ratings and the check behind it, not because it has an affiliate program. If it’s better or more honest to recommend an option without an affiliate link, we recommend it.