The FINANCIAL — Press secretary of the "South Caucasian Railways" company Vahe Davtyan told Armenpress that on August 15 the 5th thousand passenger left for Batumi. More then 4,500 passengers have left for Georgian resort town of Batumi through Yerevan-Batumi train since its operation from July 15 Armenpress reports.
“On July 15 the train departed from Yerevan with 11 wagons, but taking into consideration the great demand, five wagons have been added and two weeks ago 644 passengers left for Batumi on train”, agency reports.
"Such index has never been registered before. From the day of its operation up to now no issues have occurred and the passengers successfully reached the place. The only issue is queues for tickets but works are being carried out in that direction," Davtyan said.
Yerevan-Batumi railway is functioning temporarily – till September 15.
The number of Armenians visiting Georgia’s Black Sea coast on vacation is on course to reach a new record high this year, according to local government projections cited by Armenian diplomats.
According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Georgian Black Sea region of Ajaria has come to be the most popular destination of Armenian vacationers attracted by its beaches and inexpensive resorts. An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 of them spent their summer vacation there in 2007.
The figure fell sharply last year because of Georgia’s brief but devastating war with Russia. Thousands of Armenian citizens rushed back home in the days following the August 8, 2009 outbreak of fighting in and around South Ossetia. Many others cancelled their planned visits to Ajaria for the same reason.
According to Hakob Haji-Hakobian, Armenia’s consul general in the regional capital Batumi, 25,000 Armenians have already visited the area bordering Turkey this summer. “And bear in mind that most of the tourist influx occurs in August,” he told RFE/RL this week. The Ajar government expects the number to reach 70,000 by this fall, he said.
Earlier this summer, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan urged Armenians to spend their summer vacations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as a way to boost tourism there and infuse much-needed revenues in to the Karabakh national budget.
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