NUMBER OF TOURISTS WHO ARRIVED IN ARMENIA IN 2006 JANUARY-SEPTEMBER INCREASES BY 18.3% AS COMPARED WITH SAME MONTHS OF PREVIOUS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
Dec 12 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. 272 thousand 499 tourists arrived in
Armenia in 2006 January-September against 230 thousand 390 tourists
who arrived in Armenia in the same period of the previous year:
the growth made 18.3%.
According to the data of reports received by RA National Statistical
Service from hotels, 40 thousand tourists stayed at 38 Armenian hotels
in 2006 January-September: 36 thousand 702 tourists stayed at 35
hotels in the same period of the previous year. 22.5% of tourists who
stayed at Armenian hotels in the first ten months of this year fell
to CIS countries (29.4% in January-September of the previous year),
out of which the share of tourists having arrived from Russia makes 17%
(22.6%) in the total number of tourists, from European Union countries
34.5% (28.8%), including those having arrived from France 14.1% (9.1%),
from Germany 5.1% (5.4%), from Great Britain 5% (5.3%), from other EU
countries 10.3% (9%). The share of tourists having arrived from other
countries made 43% (in 2005 January-September 41.9%), from U.S. 23.3%
(22.8%), from Iran 5.4% (8.1%). 250 thousand 639 people left the
country for the purpose of tourism in the first nine months of 2006 or
more by 19.8% as compared with 2005 January-September. In this period
5 thousand 777 tourists left the country on trips organized by travel
agencies or more by 82.1% as compared with 2005 January-September.
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