Abstract
After the collapse due to Covid-19 pandemic, tourism sphere started recovering in 2021 and 2022. International tourism climbed to nearly 60% of pre-pandemic levels in January-July 2022. In Armenia tourism is recovering and in 2022 January-October the number of incoming tourism arrivals was 1400000. This growth is also connected with the high number of Russian tourists visiting Armenia during RussianUkrainian war. This paper presents travel and tourism competitiveness and development indexes of 2019 and 2021. Armenia was the 61st with 4.0 score in 2021 in TTDI. The main issues are connected with the qualification of the labor force, country brand strategy, T&T capital investment, ticket taxes and airport charges, air and ground transport infrastructure, natural, cultural and non-leisure resources, environmental sustainability, pollution and environmental conditions, preservation of nature, seasonality of international tourist arrivals, etc. So, some steps are needed in above-mentioned directions to insure sustainable tourism development in Armenia.
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