Iranians prefer Turkey to Armenia due to reduction of their affordability

The number of Iranian tourists visiting Armenia during Novruz has considerably reduced. It is seen in the data provided by Tatev tourism agency, key agent of Iranian Aseman Airline private company.

Speaking to Aysor.am, manager of the tourism agency Sevak Davudyan said this year very few Iranians booked places in the agency if to consider that just few days have remained to Novruz.

“The main reason is the devaluation of Iranian currency toman which resulted in less affordability of Iranians. Toman is highly devaluated as compared with the past year,” the manager said, adding that this is the only reason of reduction of number of Iranian tourists.

Davudyan advised not to search for deeper reasons as in Armenia the hotel and other services provided to foreigners are quite affordable this year.

“All the hotels have reduced the prices. In not too expensive hotels the cost for two-bed room including breakfast makes 30,000 AMD, which means 15,000 AMD each,” he said.

As to whether recently the Iranians prefer to spend their holidays in Georgia due to higher quality of services and affordability, Davudyan said, they have sent an inquiry to the Georgia side who reported that the flow of Iranian tourists to Georgia is very weak.

“Currently they mainly head to Turkey as the hotels there offer very good conditions and are very affordable,” the manager of the agency said.