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Number Of Tourists Arriving In Armenia Grows By 11.6%

NUMBER OF TOURISTS ARRIVING IN ARMENIA GROWS BY 11.6%

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 12 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. 122 thousand 528 tourists arrived
in Armenia in 2006 January-June against 109 thousand 750 tourists in
the same period of 2005. The growth made 11.6%. According to the data
of reports received by RA National Statistical Service from hotels,
26.8% out of 21 thousand 825 tourists (against 20 thousand 474 tourists
in January-June 2005), who visited RA and stayed at 35 hotels, fell
to CIS countries (32.8% in January-June 2005), out of which the
share of tourists who arrived from Russia made 19.8% (19.9%), from
EU countries 30.4% (27.6%), out of which from France 11.2% (8.4%),
from Germany 5.3% (5.8%), from Great Britain 5% (5.1%), from other EU
countries 9% (8.3%). The share of tourists who arrived from another
countries made 42.8% (in January-June 2005 39.7%), from U.S. 22.4%
(19.5%), from Iran 5.7% (7.7%).

119 thousand 451 people left the country in the first half-year of
2006 for the purpose of tourism, which exceeded the index of 2005
January-June by 13.3%. 3 thousand 297 tourists left the country on
trips organized by tourist companies in this period, which is more
by 88.5% than the index of January-June of 2005.

30 thousand 633 tourists (RA residents) were accomodated in dwellings
for collective and individual tourists’ stay in the territory of the
republic in 2006 January-June. As compared with the same period of the
previous year the growth made 14.1%. 49.9% of internal tourists (15
thousand 291 tourists against 9 thousand 534 in 2005 January-June)
moved in the republic for the purpose of rest and leisure, 4.6%
for treatment (1418 against 1455 tourists) and 33.8% on business
(10 thousand 358 against 13 thousand 156).

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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