  Silk Road Challenge program winners to visit Armenia November 5, 2012 - 16:27 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The "Silk Road Challenge" competition for bloggers has launched in the framework of London-hosted World Travel Market International Tourism Exhibition. Armenia, represented by the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (NCFA), is the general sponsor of the competition. The world’s top bloggers will compete in creating the best travel blog dedicated to the Silk Road. The winning 2 bloggers to be selected by the international jury in December will be given the opportunity to visit Armenia and further reflect their impressions and findings in their blogs, the NCFA press service reported. The NCFA and 11 RA travel agencies are among the participants of World Travel Market international exhibition, held November 5-8 in London. Armenia and Artsakh this year too have a common pavilion at the event. World Travel Market 2012 is expected to bring together 5000 travel agencies from 189 countries.   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 |  Latest news Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day  May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865.Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova.Border residents overnight on highway to protest Armenia’s Residents of Kirants continue to express outrage over the government’s decision to cede land to Azerbaijan.Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. |
