ABSTRACT
Most existing models of community-based tourism and notions of sustainability are based on the experience of relatively stable societies. This chapter is concerned with approaches to tourism development processes in a country, Albania, which has been experiencing short-to medium-term domestic instability embedded within longer-term Balkan regional instability (Hall and Danta 1996). It assesses the context and prospects for community-based tourism in Albania in the face of the likely mass tourism development which will take place when internal stability is restored.
