THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH PAVILION WAS ONE OF THE MOST VISITED PAVILIONS AT INTERNATIONAL TOURISM EXHIBITION IN BERLIN

ArmInfo
2009-03-18 18:07:00

ArmInfo. Head of the Tourism Department under the Nagorno-Karabakh
Government Sergey Shahverdyan qualified the NKR participation in
the International Tourism Exhibition in Berlin on March 12-15 as
"a breakthrough".

As ArmInfo own correspondent in Stepanakert reported, Sergey
Shahverdyan pointed put that as the organizers of exhibitions took the
lead of Azerbaijan, the NKR took part in not a single international
tourism exhibition in 2008. "It was necessary to make a breakthrough
and we did it",- he said and added that the NKR pavilion was one of the
most visited pavilions at the exhibition, and one of the key goals was
to represent Nagorno-Karabakh as a country with established traditions.

According to him, the success of the exhibition was gained by joint
efforts of the Tourism Department under the NKR Government, Tourism
Development Agency of Armenia, NKR Permanent Representation in Germany,
as well as thanks to impartiality of exhibition organizers.

To recall, Nagorno-Karabakh was represented in a separate pavilion at
the International Tourism Exhibition in Berlin. About 120 countries
participated in the exhibition. The area of the NKR pavilion was
12 sq.m. and contained places of interests of the NKR, samples of
folk-crafts articles, illustrated books, as well as samples of wine,
vodka and brandy produced in Karabakh.