Interesting fact, huh?
...a tourist spends an average of 1000 USD during 5-6 days in Armenia. The majority of them are from the USA, Russia and the CIS countries.There's a lot of numbers fudging going on in Armenia, according to the source. Regardless, I'm surprised 400,000 people decided to go to Armenia, as opposed to anywhere else. Of course, it's hard to know what part of that 400,000 is of Armenian descent, but impressive numbers, nevertheless.
It was anticipated that 400 thousand tourists would visit Armenia in 2006. Robert Kocharyan himself mentioned the figure several times. Nevertheless, the reports of the Ministries show that the anticipations weren’t justified: only 380 thousand tourists visited Armenia during 2006.
Source: A1+
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Firstly, we need to know what constitutes a tourist. Is anyone who crosses the border with Georgia and Iran a tourist, for example? Anyone on transit from Georgia to Iran or vice-versa? Anyone who comes to Armenia to participate in a conference, seminar or workshop and so on?
Add to that the need to examine internal tourism which will ultimately encourage the development of regional infrastructure (most Armenians from Diaspora are just happy to stay in central Yerevan, perhaps with a half-day or one day excursion to Sevan, Garni, Geghard, Noravank, Haghpat etc).
At any rate, I think most officials are content with tne money spent in hotels and restaurants in downtown Yerevan (many of which are owned by them or their friends and relatives), so proper analysis of tourism figures probably doesn't enter into it for them.
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