ARMENIAN TOURISM TO RISE BY 25 PERCENT
Panorama.am
15:45 26/07/06
The first quarter of the year show that tourism has gone up by 15,3
percent. Some 46 023 tourists visited the country in the reporting
year, Karen Chshmarityan, minister of trade and economic development,
told a press conference today. Monitoring forecasts say the rise will
go up to 25 percent by the end of the year. Chshmarityan also said
that 42 675 tourists left Armenia in the first quarter of 2006.
Chshmarityan indicated that infrastructure development and a
number of other programs must be accomplished for the development
of tourism in Armenia. In his words, steps are taken to that
aim. Particularly, a video film picturing Armenia will be broadcast
by CNN soon. /Panorama.am/