1 million 172.4 thousand tourists visited Armenia in January-September

During the nine months of the current year, 1 million 172.4 thousand tourists visited Armenia. Compared to the same period last year, the increase was 21%. Most of all, tourists from Russia, Georgia, Iran, Ukraine and the USA visited Armenia. Zarmine Zeytuntsyan, the chairman of the State Tourism Committee, announced this at the year-end press conference.

According to the official, first of all, the increase in the number of tourists was influenced by the facilitation of the visa regime with a number of countries, private-public sector cooperation and many other factors. But even today, the problem of making Armenia known to the world remains a priority, and the question of where Armenia is is still raised today.  

It was noted that in 2018, the amount allocated to the development of tourism in the state budget doubled to 400,000 dollars.

Earlier, VERELQ reported that tourism from Russia to Armenia increased by one third in 2017.