China Southern Airlines launches flights between Yerevan, Urumqi

Armenia ranked 71st in Henley & Partners' 2026 Passport Index, improving its position by three spots compared to the previous year.

In 2025, 2,263,642 tourists visited Armenia, compared to 2,208,179 tourists in January-December 2024, the Tourism Committee reported.

At a meeting on Thursday, the Armenian government approved the Strategic Tourism Development Program for 2026-2030 with the aim of comprehensively addressing the challenges facing the industry and coordinating ongoing reforms, including legislative ones.

Yerevan has been named one of the top five foreign cities popular with Russians for the New Year's holiday, TASS reports, citing a study by the travel planning service OneTwoTrip.

The Armenian government approved a plan to create tourist villages during a meeting on Thursday.

On Monday, Gevorg Papoyan, the Armenian Minister of Economy, and Anoushirvan Bandpei, the Deputy Minister for Tourism at Iran's Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, explored potential collaboration in tourism and ways to increase tourist numbers.