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YEREVAN. – The tourist sites in Armenia need to increase the incomes of the communities, including the rural communities.

ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)/Armenia organization director Gagik Gyurjyan stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Wednesday.

Gyurjyan pointed to the Garni Temple—a first century Hellenic temple near Garni village in Armenia—as an example of the distribution of income from tourist visits.

Accordingly, the tour operators get money for the trip, the Ministry of Culture gets revenue from the visits to the monuments, and the traditional sweets and souvenir sales on location get livelier.

As per the expert, however, the distribution of income from tourist visits must be made automatically, and not be decision-based.



 

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