We meet prime minister Edi Rama as he attempts to head off protests against plans for a new kind of luxury tourism. The lack of bonhomie contrasts with the long-serving Albanian prime minister’s image as the statesman-slash-showman of the Western Balkans. Eyes of the storm: Prime minister Edi Rama in his officeThose journalists evidently didn’t encounter the version of Rama that we see. Tourism accounts for about a quarter of Albania’s GDP but the prime minister insists that the country needs to move beyond the current model. But he’s pondering the wisdom of doing so if Albanian tourism doesn’t evolve.