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Foreign tourist flow to Armenia almost tripled in three months of  2022: Kerobyan

Foreign tourist flow to Armenia almost tripled in three months of  2022: Kerobyan

ArmInfo. In Q1 2022, 250,798 tourists arrived in Armenia, or almost 3 times more than in the same period of 2021. The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia  Vahan Kerobyan reported this on his Facebook page.

Thus, according to the head of the Ministry of Economy, from January  to March 2021, 87 thousand 131 tourists visited Armenia, for the same  period in 2019 - 333 150 visitors.

Kerobyan posted a table with data over several years: 1,290,810  people visited Armenia in 2016,  the figure reached 1,565,167 in  2017, and 1,687,285- in 2018. 1,926,353 people arrived in Armenia In  2019. In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of  tourists decreased to 375,216 people. In 2021, 870,308 people visited  Armenia.