NAGORNO KARABAKH TO DEVELOP TOURISM

HULIQ
orno-karabakh-develop-tourism
June 17 2009
SC

Tourists who travel to Armenia as an ancient, beautiful and cheap
family vacation destination in South Eastern European corner,also take
the opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful mountainous regions
of the world, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Today, the president of
Nagorno Karabakh Mr. Bako Sahakyan met with the government to discuss
way to develop tourism and recreation industry in the republic and
attrack more tourists from Europe, USA and the Middle East.

The President of Nagorno Karabakh Bako Sahakyan had a working
meeting where issues of tourism development were discussed. As the
press service of the Presidential Administration of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic informs Sergey Shahverdyan, head of the tourism development
bureau of the government, presented a report over the problem. After
that broader discussions were hold.

The President has attached importance to the development of tourism
sector considering it a direction of a strategic significance
for the state. The President instructed to work out and present a
tourism development program which will objectively and thoroughly
reflect the situation as well as the perspectives of the growth in
the sphere. Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan and other officials were
also present at the meeting, reports panorama.am.

As the State Statistic Bureau of Nagorno Karabakh Republic reports, in
2008 the external trade of the republic has increased by 10% and the
export has decreased by 24.1% in comparison with 2007. The import in
its turn has increased by 22 %. In 2008 the trade of Nagorno Karabakh
with CIS states has been 87540.2 billion AMD (Armenian drams) which
is the 93% of the whole commodity circulation of the republic. The
trade with other states amounts 5709.2 billion AMD or the 6.1 %
of the whole commodity circulation, reports Haik Daily.