Tuesday, December 19 2017 19:36
Alina Hovhannisyan

Armenia hopes to shut down tourist season 2017 with 1.5 million demonstrators

Armenia hopes  to shut down tourist season 2017 with 1.5 million  demonstrators

ArmInfo. By 2017 in Armenia,  according to the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development and  Investments of RA RA Minister of Economic Development and Investments  Zarmina Zeituntsyan, the number of tourists visiting Armenia will  exceed 1.5 mln. visitors. He was admitted on 19 December in an  indoctrinent press conference.

Reporting the 9-month period, Z. Zeituntsyan mntioned  that, for  official reasons, the reportable period Armenia had sent 1.172  million dollars. tourists, with 21% of the population. According to  the UNWTO estimates, the rate of 9% to 12% is unquestionably high,  and in developing firms is estimated at 4.4% as a stabile one. By the  end of 2017, Armenia is finishing 20-21% of its annual turnover,  according to the National Statistical Service of the Republic of  Armenia.

In the 5th most populous part of the population, who have been living  in Armenia in 2017, Russia has gone beyond 447.8. tourists with  31.6%, Georgia - 236.8 thousand. with 10.6% year-on-year, Iran -  180.6%.  tourists in 12.6% of the total, 38.4% in the United States,  35.8%, and the top five leaders of Ukraine in the number of tourists  in 22.9%, widening in the year to 16.3%. In the percentage ratio,  according to Zeituntsyan, very interesting dynamics are corrected by  traveling from Lebanon to the 82% year - old, Poland - to 31%,  Philippines to 236%, Indians to 168%, to China - to 63.6%, to  Kazakhstan - 42%, to UAE - to 119%, to Great Britain - to 24%.

"We can say with confidence that this is the most up-to-date result  of the development of the visa procedures, on the key points of the  ups and downs of aggressive marketing policies," said the Committee.

In fact, Zeituntsyan has forgotten that this year's tourism  development has been $ 200 a year, in 2018 - the sum will be up to $  400 outside. However, the head of the Committee is either a member of  the Board of Directors, as well as a marketing strategy and a new  creative approach. At the same time, Zeituntsyan argued that 2016 on  the turmoil in the structure of the tourist fleet went to $ 1  billion.

According to RA Minister of Diaspora, by 2016 Armenia will come to an  end 1.259 mln. tourists with annual growth  of 5.7%.

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