NUMBER OF TOURISTS VISITING KARABAKH INCREASED BY 31 PERCENT
Azg/arm
10 Dec 04
The number of tourists visiting Nagorno Karabakh increased by 31
percent compared with last year’s figures, Mediamax news agency quoted
YuriZakharian, official at the Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh,
as saying. Zakharian also added that this tendency was observed during
the last 4 years.
Nagorno Karabakh hosted representatives of 70 countries of the world,
mainly citizens of Russian, America, France, Canada, Germany,
Australia, Great Britain, Syria, Israel and Japan. 70 percent of the
visitors were tourists.
Yuri Zakharian noted that the number of business visits to the region
has also increased. He thinks that Karabakh’s attractiveness for
investments is the reason for this. Newly built roads and hotels also
explain the growth in tourists’ flow to the region. There are at
present 15 hotels in therepublic belonging not only to Armenians but
foreign citizens as well.