Chair of the RA Tourism Committee Lusine Gevorgyan spoke about plans to launch direct flights to Armenia from Beijing and Shanghai.
“A memorandum of understanding has been signed with one of the Armenian airlines. It is currently negotiating with two major Chinese carriers to launch new flights between Armenia and China in June,” she said in an interview with CivilNet.
According to Gevorgyan, the annual growth in the number of tourists from China to Armenia reached 37%, amounting to about 45,000 visitors. “And this is despite the fact that currently, direct flights to our country are available only from the industrial city of Urumqi,” the head of the agency noted.
She added that Chinese tourists often take advantage of regional travel packages, joining group tours to the countries of the South Caucasus.