Within the frames of the activities aimed at tourism development in the capital the head of the Tourism Unionof Yerevan Municipality Maria Baraghamyan made a press-conference to present the Touristic map of Yerevan 2015. 

The tourist map printed in two languages: English and Russian, consists of the information about the main places of interest in Yerevan center, information about museums working-time, prices, historical and cultural monuments, etc.
The map also includes the information about Yerevan Metro, bicycle stops in the city center, useful information of web-sites necessary for tourists, hotlines for tourists.
Touristic map of Yerevan 2015 has been made by the example of the international touristic maps.
“20 000 copies of Touristic map of Yerevan 2015 were printed. The project s non-commercial and the maps would be distributed at the airport, in tourist agencies, service centers including hotels and restaurants. Our main aim was to create a tourist map-guide with the help of which the tourists, visiting Yerevan, would be able to orient in the city easily.Besides, the map can be considered a good professional support for tourist field of Yerevan”, - stressed Maria Baraghamyan.
In map one can find twelve recommendations where to go and what to do in Yerevan, for example: it’s recommended to visit Erebuni archeological preservation museum, Yerevan History Museum, Republic Square during the fountain show, take two-hour tour by Yerevan City Tour route, visit Yerevan Vernissage, feel music of the city, find pub lifestyle, visit Matenadaran, visit Northern Avenue, visit Cascade and buy dried fruits from Covered Market.
Presenting the programs done for city tourism development,Maria Baraghamyan noted that particularly in the recent years special importance is attached to tourism development in Yerevan and at the same time in several directions. Especially, in the frames of tourism development the big importance is paid to event- tourism. In this scope, the three-month program “Yerevan Summer” is a good example of it, due to the fact that a lot of festivals, events are included, such as the festival “City with flair” /Armenian traditional dishes/, Yerevan beer festival, Yerevan Tarazfest /Armenian traditional dresses/, etc.
“In 2014 during “Erebuni-Yerevan 2796” events the international conference “Yerevan 2025” was organized and we represented the future vision of Yerevan as a touristic center for 2025. This, of course, is a long-term work; however, we are already on its way. We are working at this moment on the process of city territorial branding. Three years ago we organized touristic route around the city “Yerevan City Tour”. This year we created the touristic map of city center. Those all programs are the tools for tourism field development. A lot of work should be done yet”,- stressed the head of Tourism Unit Maria Baraghamyan.

The head of Tourism Union, presenting some statistical data of tourism sphere, noted that according to the data of the National Statistics Service of RA, in the period from January to March 2015, 232 583 tourists visited Armenia, 34% of which were from the CIS countries, more than 18%-from Europe.
Maria Baraghamyan noted also that almost all the tourists, visited out country, spent 2-3 days of their holidays in Yerevan.It should be noted that in accordance with the Russian mass media, this year Yerevan has been included in the lists of most popular CIS cities for Russians for March and May holiday-trips.

Information and Public Relations Department
of the City Hall of Yerevan