RA GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE TOURISM COMPANIES STRIVE FOR MAKING
COOPERATION CLOSER

YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Successes are not
guaranted in the sphere of tourism if there is no serious cooperation
and unity of the state and private sectors," Ara Petrosian, the RA
Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development stated during the
January 29 first event dedicated to the cooperation of representatives
of the sphere of tourism. In his words, similar gatherings, the goal
of which is to present newly-formed unions of the sphere of touris as
well as to level new roads for cooperation, will become annual.

As Syuzanna Azoyan, the event organizer, Marketing Director of the
Armenian Tourism Development Agency (ATDA) informed the Noyan Tapan
correspondent, the state sector of the sphere, particularly, the ATDA,
cooperated before with hotels and tourism agents separately. In her
words, passing to the "official" level of cooperation will make the
work more effective.

"All the tourism associations functioning in Armenia, Unions of Inside
Tour Operators, the Armenian Airlines Representation, Hotels of
Armenia, Restaurants of Armenia as well as the Guild of Armenian
Guides will get the RA Government’s certificates owing to which they
will have "the deciding vote" presenting their sector in this sphere,"
S.Azoyan said.