15559 TOURISTS VISIT ARTSAKH IN 2012

March 20, 2013 – 21:54 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – 15559 foreign citizens from 86 countries visited
the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic in 2012, with the number
of tourists growing 36.9% as compared with 2011, according to NKR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Artsakh attracted 49.5% of the tourists from Russia, 8.9% – from the
U.S., 6.1 %-from France, and 3.5% – from Iran, karabakh-open.info
reported.

The country attached special attention to tourism industry in the past
few years, with favorable legal, economic and structural conditions
created for the development of the sector.