INCOME FROM TOURIST ACTIVITY IN ARMENIA IN 2007 MAY GROW TO 2,1% OF GDP: INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS
Arminfo
2007-04-05 18:26:00
By estimations of the "International Tourism Council", the income
from the tourist activity in Armenia in 2007 may increase to 2.1%
in GDP structure that is a sufficient growth over the last 10 years,
ArmInfo was told in the Office of the "Competitive Armenian Private
Sector" Programme (CAPS) under USAID financing. To note, Armenia’s
GDP volume in 2007 is forecasted at a level of 2.922.4 bln drams.
According to the source data, the growth is forecasted for the
following years as well. The specialists of the CAPS Programme,
who carry out a number of investigations in tourism in Armenia, have
come to a conclusion that an adventure tourism is mainly developed
in the republic, which is attested by 63% of respondents, having
been interrogated by the market experts of CAPS during a tourist
exhibition "World Travel Market" in London in November, 2006. The
popularity of this kind of tourism in Armenia is connected with
the country’s mountain topography and availability of cultural and
historical monuments in mountains. In the opinion of CAPS specialists,
the Armenian community of the USA is the most important segment of
Armenia’s internal tourism. The polls have shown that over half of
the Armenians, living in the USA, have a great desire to visit Armenia
within the next five years. The research was carried out in January,
2007, in the USA.
The more detailed information about other research, which are carried
out by CAPS jointly with RA Ministry of Trade and Economic Development
and the Armenian Tourism Development Agency, will be available during
the International Forum titled "Competitiveness of the National
Tourism" to be held in Yerevan on April 11-12.