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Armenia's Tourism is booming.

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  • bell-the-cat
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    Re: Armenia's Tourism is booming.

    Originally posted by ardzif View Post
    I was reading this article and apparently Armenia receieved around 843 K visitors in 2012. ourism in Armenia is consistently growing. In 2011 Armenia received 758 K touristic visits and 684 K in 2010.

    Armenia currently receives visitors amounting to around 30% of its' population. The services sector in Armenia (includes tourism) amounts to 42% for its GDP. The increase of visitors will consistently support Armenia's Economy and help reduce unemployment and fuel other economical sector. Armenia's GDP growth averaged 7.36% in the last 10 years, and had a quick rebound after the economic crisis with 7.2 % growth in 2012.

    I know Armenia's Economy is not perfect, I know there is unemployment and high migration rate for its talented people to find people abroad, but I love to see even the smallest indicator of an improvement in Armenia's Economy. Good to see Armenia Rising
    I'd say that hard claims about tourist numbers are fake because there are no actual hard figures to base the claims on. Armenia counts just about anyone entering the country as a "tourist", and mostly does not distinguish between those coming for short-term business reasons, or visiting family or relatives, or those making brief trips from Georgia. I wonder why the word "tourists" is being used in those articles, rather than just "visitors"? Are there separate figures for foreign "visitor" numbers? 843,000 seems a high figure for "tourists"- there are not enough hotel beds in the whole country to cater for that amount of visitors! Other countries use more accurate data, such as bed occupancy rate, or length of stay, or visitor numbers to sites, or average spend per visitor per day. Unless such statistics are available for Armenia there is not the data to make claims about the scale of tourism or whether it is growing or not or how it is contributing to the economy. But most of the big hotels are mafia owned - they will be reluctant to give out any data on occupancy and prices paid.
    Last edited by bell-the-cat; 08-27-2013, 06:31 AM.

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  • ardzif
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    Re: Armenia's Tourism is booming.

    Moderators, I am not sure if this fits well in "Going to Armenia" or in another Forum, please let me know, thanks

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  • ardzif
    started a topic Armenia's Tourism is booming.

    Armenia's Tourism is booming.

    I was reading this article and apparently Armenia receieved around 843 K visitors in 2012. ourism in Armenia is consistently growing. In 2011 Armenia received 758 K touristic visits and 684 K in 2010.

    Armenia currently receives visitors amounting to around 30% of its' population. The services sector in Armenia (includes tourism) amounts to 42% for its GDP. The increase of visitors will consistently support Armenia's Economy and help reduce unemployment and fuel other economical sector. Armenia's GDP growth averaged 7.36% in the last 10 years, and had a quick rebound after the economic crisis with 7.2 % growth in 2012.

    I know Armenia's Economy is not perfect, I know there is unemployment and high migration rate for its talented people to find people abroad, but I love to see even the smallest indicator of an improvement in Armenia's Economy. Good to see Armenia Rising
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