Armenia Travel Blog

Direct flights from Venice, Italy, to Yerevan, Armenia, will start on June 5, 2009.
The flights will be opened by a new air-company Festa Tour Avia in partnership with the Italian MyAir. The ticket price is expected to be around 475 Euro. The flights will initially be only weekly, however if the new direction is successful [...]

The Night of Museums will take place on May 16 in Yerevan, Armenia, kicking off at 18:00. A number of museums will not only open their doors for free but will also present their special programs and exhibitions. This is going to be the 5th Night of Museums organised in Armenia, the first one was [...]

The Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia has developed the plan for the Khosrov State Reserve management for 2010-2014, which should foster the development of the reserve’s bioresources. According to Aram Aghasyan, head of the department for coordination of natural areas under special protection, Ministry of Nature Protection, the new plan also includes scientific research works [...]

Today, on November 4, residents of the Armenian capital Yerevan could feel earthquaking shocks. The earthquake magnitude was about 4-5. This is a light shaking causing no damage, that happens in Armenia several times a year.

“At the foot of Ararat”, an exposition devoted to Boris Piotrovsky’s 100th anniversary, opened in the state Ermitage of St.Petersburg, Russia. Academician Boris Piotrovsky was a celebrated archaeologist, orientalist, founder of the Russian Urartology, who studied archeology of Caucasus most of his life, and director of the Ermitage from 1908 till 1990.
The exposition includes pieces [...]

The 41st international film festival for films and video programmes devoted to tourism was held traditionally in Karlový Vary, Czech Republic in October 2008.
The TourFilm festival includes not only films and video produced by national boards, regions and cities, but also commercial films devoted to tourism and television travelogues, as well as multimedia (www + [...]

Armenia and Georgia has an unsolved border dispute, which arose because of the medieval Armenian monastery Khorakert, dated XII – XIII centuries and located on the border between Armenia and Georgia. The monastery is in the list of specially protected objects of Armenia together with other 24,000 historical and cultural monuments. 
The dispute arose at the revision [...]

Armenian government has recently approved the Tourism Development Program for 2008-1012.
The program was developed in frames of the Armenian Tourism Development Concept. According to the Program, paramount attention is paid to the legislative base of the tourism in Armenia, as well as to the development of structures of the industry and their constructive reformation. In [...]