TOURISM MAY START DEVELOPING IN ARMENIA ONLY AFTER ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL CADASTRE - EXPERT
YEREVAN, June 13. /ARKA/. Tourism may start developing in Armenia
only after establishment of a special cadastre, Robert Minasyan,
the head of the Armenian Tourism Institute, said on Friday.
He said this agency will identify problems in tourism grounding on
analyses. "It is impossible to develop tourism with closed eyes,
it is necessary to think over creation of a cadastre that will be
taking stock of tourism, the amount of its revenues, paid taxes and
the number of people employed by the industry," he said.
Minasyan said that first of all human factor is important for
development of tourism. It means specialists here should be skilled
and the interests of the tourists traveling to Armenian should be
known very well.
"Many hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities appeared in the
country in a few years, which are very important for tourists, but
human factor shouldn't be forgotten ..." he said.
In recent days, Economy Minister Karen Chshmaritsyan said that
957,240 tourists have visited Armenia in 2013 and that this is
13.5% more than in 2012 (843,330). In his words, AMD 46 million of
the planned AMD 50 million was spent in 2013 on ensuring Armenian
and Nagorno-Karabakh travel agencies' participation in tourist
expositions in Madrid, Berlin and London. .-0---- - See more at:
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YEREVAN, June 13. /ARKA/. Tourism may start developing in Armenia
only after establishment of a special cadastre, Robert Minasyan,
the head of the Armenian Tourism Institute, said on Friday.
He said this agency will identify problems in tourism grounding on
analyses. "It is impossible to develop tourism with closed eyes,
it is necessary to think over creation of a cadastre that will be
taking stock of tourism, the amount of its revenues, paid taxes and
the number of people employed by the industry," he said.
Minasyan said that first of all human factor is important for
development of tourism. It means specialists here should be skilled
and the interests of the tourists traveling to Armenian should be
known very well.
"Many hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities appeared in the
country in a few years, which are very important for tourists, but
human factor shouldn't be forgotten ..." he said.
In recent days, Economy Minister Karen Chshmaritsyan said that
957,240 tourists have visited Armenia in 2013 and that this is
13.5% more than in 2012 (843,330). In his words, AMD 46 million of
the planned AMD 50 million was spent in 2013 on ensuring Armenian
and Nagorno-Karabakh travel agencies' participation in tourist
expositions in Madrid, Berlin and London. .-0---- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/tourism/tourism_may_start_developing_in_armenia_only_after _establishment_of_special_cadastre_expert/#sthash.7v7eVlSb.dpuf