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MORE TOURISTS FROM LATIN AMERICA VISIT ARMENIA
YEREVAN, April 19. / ARKA /. More and more tourists from Latin America
are visiting Armenia, according to Armine Adamian, head of Amistad
Tour travel agency, who spoke to a news conference today.
She said tourists from Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Puerto Rico
and some other Latin American countries choose Armenia as a tourist
destination and many of them are not Diaspora Armenians. She said
an increasing interest in Armenia may be motivated by search for new
experiences, as well as by a desire to visit a new faraway country.
"So far, they are not very many, but in view of the fact that each
of Latin American tourists visiting Armenia may act as a "live
advertisement" for their country fellows, it is extremely important
for Armenia", she said.
She said many of foreigners who visited Armenia last year had planned
originally to visit Syria, but then refused to travel to that country
because of the clashes between the government and opposition forces.
She said the major obstacle to the development of tourism in the
country is the high cost of airfares.
"Prices for flights to Armenia are much higher than to many neighboring
countries, and this makes foreign tourists to choose other than
Armenia countries,' she said.
The executive director of Eurasia travel agency, Gagik Lazarian,
said another obstacle to tourism development is lack of advertising
and low level services in eateries outside the capital city.
According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, some 843,330
foreign tourists visited Armenia in 2012, an increase of 11.3% from
the previous year. -0-
From: A. Papazian
YEREVAN, April 19. / ARKA /. More and more tourists from Latin America
are visiting Armenia, according to Armine Adamian, head of Amistad
Tour travel agency, who spoke to a news conference today.
She said tourists from Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Puerto Rico
and some other Latin American countries choose Armenia as a tourist
destination and many of them are not Diaspora Armenians. She said
an increasing interest in Armenia may be motivated by search for new
experiences, as well as by a desire to visit a new faraway country.
"So far, they are not very many, but in view of the fact that each
of Latin American tourists visiting Armenia may act as a "live
advertisement" for their country fellows, it is extremely important
for Armenia", she said.
She said many of foreigners who visited Armenia last year had planned
originally to visit Syria, but then refused to travel to that country
because of the clashes between the government and opposition forces.
She said the major obstacle to the development of tourism in the
country is the high cost of airfares.
"Prices for flights to Armenia are much higher than to many neighboring
countries, and this makes foreign tourists to choose other than
Armenia countries,' she said.
The executive director of Eurasia travel agency, Gagik Lazarian,
said another obstacle to tourism development is lack of advertising
and low level services in eateries outside the capital city.
According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, some 843,330
foreign tourists visited Armenia in 2012, an increase of 11.3% from
the previous year. -0-
From: A. Papazian