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    RESULTS OF ONE-YEAR STUDY ON INTERNATIONAL TRAVELS TO ARMENIA PRESENTED

    Noyan Tapan
    April 1, 2008

    YEREVAN, APRIL 1, NOYAN TAPAN. Foreign tourists visit Armenia for
    the following purposes: to see their relatives and friends (44.8%),
    to do business (22.4%), and to spend their holidays (11.6%), the head
    of the balance of payment and foreign trade unit of the RA National
    Statistical Service Alexander Petrosian said at the March 31 press
    conference to discuss results of a one-year study on international
    travels to Armenia.

    The study was conducted from September 2006 to August 2007 with
    joint efforts of the RA ministry of trade and economic development,
    the RA National Statistical Service, the Armenian Tourism Development
    Agency, and the USAID-financed Competitive Armenian Private Sector
    (CAPS) program.

    According to A. Petrosian, tourists from North America, Western Europe,
    Japan and the Middle East make up the majority of those who come to
    Armenia for holidays and entertainment.

    The study shows that tourists spend 19.6 days on average in Armenia,
    spending 36 dollars a day. Canadians spend the largest amount of money,
    while Japanese are in second place. 52.7% of tourists visit Armenia
    for the third time.

    The main source of information for tourists visiting Armenia are their
    relatives and friends (52.4%), as well as their previous visits, which
    shows that Armenia is a country with a low level of tourism-oriented
    market progress.

    Tourists mostly assess Armenia as good (on a 5-point scale), indicating
    sights and health resorts as advantages, while low quality of roads
    and the Armenian dram's appreciation against other currencies as
    disadvantages.

    Armenians traveling abroad mainly go to Georgia (24.7%), Russia
    (44.9%) and Iran (5.9%). The average duration of a travel makes 49
    days, with 21.4 dollars being spent daily.

    The study represented a preliminary stage for introduction of
    "Tourism Satellite Balance" system, which will allow to have both
    quantitative data and information on geography of tourist trips, age,
    gender, preferences and impressions of tourists, purpose of visits,
    the amount of expenditures, which is important for the development
    and implementation of an efficient state policy on the tourism sector.

    In the words of the head of the tourism department of the RA ministry
    of trade and economic development Mekhak Apresian, the study results
    will be used to specify the priorities of tourism development in
    Armenia. According to him, cooperation among the above mentioned
    structures for conducting studies will continue within the framework
    of the Armenian government-approved concept on tourism development. It
    is envisaged that the program of measures on implementation of the
    indicated concept will be approved in June or July of this year.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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