YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. The Government plans in 2017 to double the number of tourists visiting Armenia, Zarmine Zeytuntsyan, President of the State Tourism Committee, told reporters after the Cabinet meeting on May 11, reports Armenpress.

She added that in the first quarter of this year the number of tourists visited Armenia increased by 18.23%, which, according to her, is an unprecedented figure.

“It sounds very ambitious, but we aim to double the number of tourists until the end of this year. In this sense we carry out significant work especially in neighboring states, in Iran, Russia. I think we will have higher growth in April which we will compare with April 2015, since in April 2016 due to the four-day war we recorded a decline in the field”, Zeytuntsyan said.

She informed that this year the largest number of tourists came from Iran, Russia, France and China. In March 23% growth in arrival of tourists from Iran was registered.

In 2016, 1 million 250 thousand tourists arrived in Armenia.