"The project will build effective and replicable networks of capable local service providers in rural tourism, as well as will help travel agencies to co-develop market and sell a new unique tourist product that encourages interflows of visitors intra-regionally. It will contribute to unprecedented cooperation between national authorities in the region aimed ultimately to sustaining the cross-border impacts of rural tourism," said Anahit Ghazanchyan, director of the Armenian branch of Heifer Project International.
She explained that a network of travel agencies and other companies will be set up in Armenia that will establish links with similar agencies in the other three countries. The network in Armenia will develop and implement a unique tourist product called "One tour package for regional visitors ," which will be part of the regional tourism product.
Mekhak Apresyan, head of an economy ministry department overseeing tourism industry, said the program will be actively supported by the government."We have potential to develop agro-tourism, when tourists are in agricultural work,’ he said.
Heifer Project International, founded in 1944, aims at reducing global poverty.
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Happy to know that Heritage International is helping this region. We visited and wrote about Georgia in 2013. We enjoyed meeting the people, the culture and the beauty of the Caucasus. We would love to travel to and write about the other countries in the region! When visiting Georgia be sure to look for the qvevri-made wines.
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