Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shituni Kristaq Author-Name-First: Shituni Author-Name-Last: Kristaq Author-Email: shitunikristaq@yahoo.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Title: Human Resources in tourism and hospitaliy. Case study: Human Resources in Albanian tourism Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: The purpose of this article is to show the vital need for human resources in tourism, the contact of the employee with the customers and the direct influence purchasing a service. Albanian potential tourism sources, the foreign request for this destination and also the situation of human resources in the tourism industry. The improvement of the quality of human resources being key factor to succeed in this sector. In this article will consider the request for the Albanian tourism destination also the quality of human resources in this sector. It will be shown how obvious is the influence of seasonal work in human resources skills and competencies in the tourism sector, a factor which shows that tourism services management must fix this gap by relative improvement and the right training methods. Keywords: tourism, human resources, employment, Albania, new destination, hospitality Classification-JEL: L83, O15, E24, J23 Creation-Date: 2014 Year: 2014 Volume: 10 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol10/shituni.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2014-11