New camping site to be built on mount Aragats in Armenia
14.09.2007,
03:14
In near future on one of the flanks of Aragats mount in Armenia construction work of a new camping site will start, said Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Ara Petrosyan in Yerevan, on Thursday.
YEREVAN, September 13. /ARKA/. In near future on one of the flanks of Aragats mount in Armenia construction work of a new camping site will start, said Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Ara Petrosyan in Yerevan, on Thursday.
“The second tourism base for winter sports will become an alternative to the one operating in Tsakhkadzor camping site,” he said.
Petrosyan said that at present projecting is being done, in which specialists from France participate, and the work on forming relevant infrastructures on Mount Aragats will start in near future.
In this connection he pointed out that the development program of Tsakhkadzor as camping site allowed prolonging tourism season in Armenia.
“Due to this, the number of tourists preferring to go in for downhill skiing also in winter time has increased,” he said.
On February 1, 2007, the RA Government proclaimed Tsakhkadzor a tourism center. Earlier Ara Petrosyan said that this will allow the Government and the authorities to use the status of a tourism center during the bilateral negotiations or implementation of corresponding programs by international organizations, as well as to demonstrate the Government’s definite approach to the tourism sphere, which is announced as a priority in Armenia.
AMD 180mln (about $530ths) was allocated from the state budget in 2007 to develop tourism in Tsakhkadzor. L.M. –0--
“The second tourism base for winter sports will become an alternative to the one operating in Tsakhkadzor camping site,” he said.
Petrosyan said that at present projecting is being done, in which specialists from France participate, and the work on forming relevant infrastructures on Mount Aragats will start in near future.
In this connection he pointed out that the development program of Tsakhkadzor as camping site allowed prolonging tourism season in Armenia.
“Due to this, the number of tourists preferring to go in for downhill skiing also in winter time has increased,” he said.
On February 1, 2007, the RA Government proclaimed Tsakhkadzor a tourism center. Earlier Ara Petrosyan said that this will allow the Government and the authorities to use the status of a tourism center during the bilateral negotiations or implementation of corresponding programs by international organizations, as well as to demonstrate the Government’s definite approach to the tourism sphere, which is announced as a priority in Armenia.
AMD 180mln (about $530ths) was allocated from the state budget in 2007 to develop tourism in Tsakhkadzor. L.M. –0--
