RA Government aims to stimulate tourism in RA and NKRJuly 22, 2009 - 17:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited Aspar Wild Tour travel agency engaged in organization of sightseeing tours in Armenia and NKR since 2006. The agency intends to expand its service range and present itself in a new way, RA Government Press Service reported. Sargsyan noted that organization's activities are consonant with governmental programs aimed at tourism development and expressed a hope that the programs will be successfully fulfilled through effective collaboration. RA Prime Minister emphasized that to assist travel agents, RA Government launched a number of initiatives, aiming to stimulate tourism in RA and NKR.. Upon viewing introductory film on NKR sights, the Prime Minister met travel agency representatives. Referring to "Low budget tours to Artsakh" package presented on July 8, Sargsyan gave positive assessment to a 3-day introductory visit to NKR and emphasized that further discussions made it possible to discover new possibilities and development perspectives for tourism to NKR. Prime Minister stressed the importance of joint work between major organizations and travel agencies, as well as establishing of collaboration between RA Government and travel agents. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Concept to complete Yerevan Cascade discussed at city hall A conceptual proposal to complete the Cascade complex in downtown Yerevan has been presented by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Pashinyan visits flood-hit region Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province. €3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms. Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. |