NUMBER OF TOURISTS FROM ARMENIA INCREASES BY 50.5% IN FIRST QUARTER OF
2007 ON SAME PERIOD OF LAST YEAR

YEREVAN, JUNE 11, NOYAN TAPAN. In January-March 2007, 64,242 people
left Armenia in order to travel abroad agaisnt 42,675 people in the
same period of 2006: the growth made 50.5%.

According to the RA National Statistical Service, in the indicated
period 1,732 people left the country via tour agencies (1,079 people –
in the first quarter of 2006), including 276 tourists traveling on
business (112 tourists in the same period of last year), 654 (124) –
for pleasure, and 802 (843) – for other purposes.