6 ARMENIAN TOUR OPEARTORS TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
EXHIBITION IN MILAN ON FEBRUARY 22-25

YEREVAn, JANUARY 31, NOYAN TAPAN. By the 2007 RA state budget, 35 mln
drams (about 97 thousand USD) has been allocated to the Armenian
Tourism Development Agency (ATDA) against 20 mln drams in each of the
two previous years. Suzanna Azoyan, ATDA Marketing Director, told
this to NT correspondent. In her words, these allocations will be
spent on implementation of various programs in Armenia, as well as on
ATDA’s participation in a number of international tourism events
abroad.

According to her, ATDA and 6 Armenian tour operators will participate
in the international tourism exhibition to be held in Milan on
February 22-25. She said that several Russian and German journalists
will make familiarization trips to Armenia in September. A similar
press trip was also organized last autumn for French journalists,
while Ekaterina Zemtsova (the Russian magazine "Sobaka.ru") paid a
familiarization visit to Yerevan in December and later conveyed her
impressions in a recently published article.

S. Azoyan informed NT correspondent that on the initiative of ATDA the
tourism festival "Kenats" ("Toast") will be held in Yerevan on
September 21-23.