YEREVAN. – Armenia is among the Russians’ top three most affordable tourist destination countries. 

Head of the Tourism Department at the Ministry of Economy of Armenia, Mekhak Apresyan, stated the aforesaid at a press conference on Tuesday.

Apresyan presented the respective data by the Travel.ru tourism service of Russia. 

Accordingly, Armenia occupies the top spots also in terms of most interesting tourist destinations.

Now, Russian tourists spend their vacations in Armenia not solely in summer and fall, but also during the New Year holidays. 

As a result, even though the outbound tourism of Russia dropped by 30 percent in the year past, this reduction was only 6 percent in terms of Russian tourists visiting Armenia.

“Russia accounts for 45 percent of the 1 million 192 thousand tourists who visited Armenia in 2015,” Mekhak Apresyan concluded