Armenia participates in ITB Berline exhibition

YEREVAN, March 11. /ARKA/. Armenia is participating in the annual
international tourist exhibition ITB Berlin 2009, which has been opened
in Berlin, Germany.

Mekhak Apresyan, Head of the Tourism and Territorial Economic
Development, RA Ministry of Economy, reported that 12 Armenian travel
agencies are participating in the exhibition. He also pointed out that
it is for the first time that Nagorno-Karabakh has its own stand at the
exhibition as an individual tourist center.

`Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in the exhibition is the result of
joint efforts of the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh sides, Armenian and
Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Offices as well as the agencies in charge of
the tourist industry in both the countries,’ Apresyan said.

He said that the government agencies have to a much greater extent been
involved in arranging Armenia’s participation in the exhibition this
year.

The annual exhibition ITB Berlin 2009 is a significant even for the
world’s tourist industry. Among the participants in the exhibition are
international tourist federations, travel agencies, hotels and
insurances companies.

Among the visitors are businessmen, hotel managers, and publishers of
literature for tourists. Besides promoting new ideas and achievements,
the ITB Berlin exhibition presents a wide variety of products for
tourists.–0–