03/09/2018 12:59
About 685,970 tourists visited Armenia in first half of 2018 - Minister
About 685,970 tourists visited Armenia in the first half of the running year, Minister of Economic Development and Investments Artsvik Minasyan told the reporters on Monday.
“As compared with the same span of the past year the growth has made 10.2%,” Minasyan said, noting that about 610,900 people departed from Armenia for tourism purpose. The growth made 7.1%. Some 27.1% of tourists departed for CIS countries, 24% for EU countries and 48.9 to other countries.
The minister also noted that 17.1% growth has been registered in domestic tourism structure.