Hakob Hakobyan: 2010 appears promising for tourism

PanARMENIAN.Net - The year of 2010 appears promising for tourism, according to Hakob Hakobyan, chairman of the Armenian Hotel Association.

“Presently, the hotels in the center of Yerevan are almost half-filled. In the height of the season they will be crammed,” he told a news conference on June 12.

As to prices, Hakobyan thinks that they are affordable for the tourists arriving in Armenia, amounting to 60 euro in average.

He added that for internal tourism the prices are really “high a bit”, but presumed that “an Armenian family can have a weekly rest in an Armenian resort for $400-500.”

Hakobyan said “the prices in Armenia should not be compared with those in Turkey, which hosts 300 000 tourists from Russia annually.”

“A country like Armenia can’t accept a large number of tourists,” he said.