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Social | 06.09.10 | 12:06

Going out or staying in?: Armenian holidaymakers prefer Georgia over “expensive” Armenia

By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
With the tourism season at end the Armenia capital streets are full of locals whose golden suntans were not taken from Lake Sevan’s beaches, but rather from the Black Sea in Georgia resorts such as Batumi, Kobuleti or Ureki.

(Other travel destinations such as Turkish Mediterranean resorts, Cyprus, Tunisia, Ukraine, Russia or spas in Eastern Europe also remain favorite options.)

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Anonymous (unverified)
30.09.2010 12:38
water in Sevan Lake is very cold even in summer.. you ccan't compare sea & lake ( especially mountanious Sevan lake).....
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raf (unverified)
06.09.2010 07:49
Armenia is a landlocked country so it is quite normal that some Armenians prefer Georgian resorts over Sevan, but the fact that most Armenians have such a low opinion of Sevan is an indicator of a complete mess in Armenia's tourism sector, there is no ministry of tourism, there are no concrete plans to boost internal tourism. There should be some really luring incentives like tax exemption for several years to encourage local businessmen to build hotels with affordable prices.
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