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    STATISTIC DATABASE IN SPHERE OF TOURISM BEING IMPROVED IN ARMENIA

    ArmInfo
    2009-02-03 17:25:00

    ArmInfo. The working group set up to improve the statistic tourism database
    of Armenia held its first sitting. Head of Tourism Department at Armenian
    Economy Ministry Mekhak Apresyan told ArmInfo correspondent that the sitting
    of the working group set up within the frames of the Armenian Tourism
    Development Conception for 2009-2012 by the decree of Armenian Economy
    Minister Nerses Yeritsyan was held on February 2.

    Mekhak Apresyan said that the working group includes representatives of the
    Economy Ministry, Migration Department under the Territorial Administration
    Ministry, National Statistical Service of Armenia, General Department of
    Civil Aviation, Armenian Tourism Development Agency, USAID-funded
    Competitive Armenian Private Sector Project.

    According to Apresyan, at the initial stage the working group intends to
    research the existing statistical data, introduce amendments in some
    legislative acts, improve and enlarge the database. "The potential of high
    technologies at customs points of the country will allow us to considerably
    enlarge and specify the base, as well as the statistical data calculation
    methods in the sphere of tourism",- he said. Apresyan stressed that the
    settlement of this problem will allow gradually introducing a satellite
    system in Armenia.

    To recall, the Armenian Government approved the Tourism Development
    Conception for 2009-2012 in October 2008. The activities stipulated in the
    document for 2009-2012 aim to improve the regulating legal field, develop
    tourism infrastructures, implement structural reforms, represent Armenia as
    a tourism country in international markets, as well as to attract
    investments and improve the transport communication. According to the
    forecasts in the Tourism Development Conception, 1.5 mln tourists will visit
    Armenia in 2020, and 3 mln in 2030.

    According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, about 560 thsd
    tourists visited Armenia in 2008, this index being by 9.4% higher than in
    2007. 516 thsd people left Armenia for tourism purposes in 2008, this index
    being by 10.3% higher than in 2007.
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