RATE OF TOURISTS DROPPED BY 9%
Story from Lragir.am News:
Published: 11:27:42 – 05/06/2012
104,374 tourists visited Armenia in the first quarter of this year.
Their number has dropped by 9.0% compared with the past year. 120,050
people left the country for travels in the same period. This rate is
up by 1.9% year over year.
According to the National Statistical Service, 30% of tourists who
have visited Armenia this year are from the CIS countries, 35.5% from
the European Union. The number of Iranian tourists has dropped by 5.9%.
The government of Armenia is going to boost the number of tourists
traveling to Armenia up to 3 million annually by 2030. The number of
tourists visiting Armenia in 2011 was 757,935.
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