Big group of tourists from Armenia to spend vacations in Nagorno-Karabakh

YEREVAN, August 18, /ARKA/. A big group of tourists from Armenia left for Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday for a week-long vacation. Ruben Grigorian, president of RUMEA Fascinating Travels Club, told journalists that the group comprises 61 people. The vacation was organized as part of a pilot program, designed by the government of Nagorno-Karabakh to boost tourism.

The government of Nagorno-Karabakh asked the authorities in Yerevan to urge citizens of the Republic of Armenia to spend their vacations in Nagorno-Karabakh offering also a flexible and accessible pricing system.

Grigorian said they are planning to attract tourists from other countries to Nagorno-Karabakh as well, adding that they have received already applications from Canadian and Swedish tourists. The RUMEA Club has developed an interesting program for tourists who will visit the capital city Stepanakert, Shushi, old monasteries, the recently excavated Tigranakert town, a new aqua park, local museums and other sites.

According to Grigorian, they will extend the tours beyond September because a great number of citizens of Armenia wish to see Nagorno-Karabakh. According to a tourist who was leaving for Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, spending a vacation in Nagorno-Karabakh is more preferable than vacationing in other countries.

Earlier this summer, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan called on travel agencies and his government to join efforts and launch a wide-range campaign to advertise in-Armenian tourism via TV, radio and press and urged citizens of Armenian to spend their summer vacations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as a way to boost tourism there and infuse much-needed revenues into the Karabakh national budget. -0-