10.6 thousand tourists from Turkey visited Armenia in 2011.

Compared to 2010, when the number of Turkish tourists visiting Armenia was 19.2 thousand, in 2011 that number decreased by 14.2 per cent, the press service of Armenia’s National Statistics Services informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Large number of tourists visiting Armenia in 2010 was connected with the activation of Armenian-Turkish diplomatic relations. In 2009 only 6,900 Turkish tourists visited Armenia.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, compared to 2010, in 2011 the number of Armenian tourists visiting Turkey increased by 4.5 percent.