The "Fact" daily writes:
Recently, Nikol Pashinyan made such a post. "Tourism in Armenia lives its best times. In May 202, June, July, a historically recorded number of tourists for those months, in May 181, 436, June 215,253, and 263,592 visitors.
He did not write something wrong with quoting net numbers. But here's interesting why Nikol Pashinyan does not address semi-annual or quarterly indicators, but marks three months, which are not quarterly considered to be quarterly (January-June, July-September, October-December periods). The point is that in reality, positive indicators were registered only during the months he mentioned, and with half-known data is the complete opposite image. Look, in January-June 2024, according to the RA Statistical Committee, 944162 people visited Armenia, and in 2025. In January-May, 907135, ie 37 thousand tourists or less than 4.1%.
Even if we add to July data, when we really visited more tourists, we have about 13 years of negative "balance" compared to June-July last year. By the way, in order to make the situation with "unprecedented" clearer, it should be noted that in 2023. More than 1 million tourists visited Armenia in January-June. There are also more worrying data.
We are talking about tourists from Armenia. If 705105 tourists left Armenia in the first half of this year, 748331 in the first half of this year, ie 43226 more than in the same period last year. If we take into account that in July-August that quantity is incomparably large, the picture will become more clear.
By the way, it is not necessary to mention that, according to the UN World Tourism Organization (CAP), any person traveling to relaxation, treatment, relatives, travels to another location not less than 24 hours and not more than in a row.
In other words, his main goal is to travel, not to engage in work, in which case payments to travel will be made at the expense of the financial resources received from work activities.
