Another limitation during this study has to do directly with the lack of transparency and different grades of interventions in the communist hotels, which makes it difficult to assess since there are not in disposal of the research. The hotels constructed during communism (1944 – 1990) have been managed since the phase of the Design from the National Design Institute4, which has deposited their projects in the Central Technical Archive of Construction5, A part of these projects has managed to be preserved by this institute and published in a catalogue “Hotels - before 1990 development of typology in Albania”6, still there is a significant deficiency in terms of literature and studies regarding hotels in Albania. The inability to access illustrative materials, drawing projects of different periods who were constructed without an architectural or design project and especially the ones constructed during communism who have made structural and architectural interventions, consist in a considerable limitation during this research. Inability to access information by the actual owners due to informality during privatization process and Lack of Prior Studies in the same nature are presented as considerable limitations.
1.7 Methodology The research methodology during this research, is considered a mix method, a combination of descriptive, analytic and qualitative method, considering that each of them cannot considered exhaustive in and out itself. Whiles the combination gives the opportunity to explore the nature of tourism in Albania, the market of accommodation, architectural and urban context as continuing in diversifying the way of conceptualization and interventions regarding the heritage of hotels in the country.
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from now on called NDI from now n CTAC 6 This represents the only official publication regarding the architecture of hotels in Albania during communism 5
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