From January to May of 2018 8654 foreign tourists have visited Artsakh. The number of the tourists has increased by 102% or 4362 as compared to the same period of 2017. Moreover, the number of the tourists has increased as compared to separate months by 180%, 225%, 19%, 14%, 146% or by 396, 744, 99, 172, 2951 persons respectively.
The overall number of the subjects functioning in the field of tourism makes up: 10 organizations, 9 tourism operator, and 1 tourism agent.
In the same period of time 4 hotels have been built (all of them tourist houses) – 11 hotel rooms and 24 beds.
For now, 53 hotels with 1475 beds are open in the territory of Artsakh Republic.
P.S. Since the start of the year, “Karabakh, Hidden Treasure” 1:20-minute video record has been displayed in “Zvartnots” airport for 24 hours.
Artsakh has been presented in the tourist exhibitions taken place in Moscow, Yerevan, and Madrid.
In April 2 bloggers have visited Artsakh – Igor Korolev and Karen Arzumanyan, who have shared their impressions about Artsakh on social networks.
On June 22, the presentation of the newly updated webpage (http://artsakh.travel/) of tourism department. artsakh.travel page was opened on Instagram, which already has 863 followers.
karabakh.travel Facebook page was opened, reaching 10661 followers.
Press release of the Department of Tourism if the Republic of Artsakh