1.67 tourists traveled to Armenia in 2022 – preliminary dataJanuary 10, 2023 - 17:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Preliminary data suggests 1.67 million tourists traveled to Armenia throughout 2022, the Tourism Committee said Monday, January 9. According to the Committee, 130,000 people arrived in Armenia 2022, up from 67,000 in 2021. “For the second time this year, we exceeded 2019's monthly visits, hosting 130,429 trips (110,685 trips in December 2019),” the Committee added. Authorities predict that in 2023, Armenia will be able to reach the results of 2019, when 1,894,377 tourists visited the country. 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 | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |