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Tourism assures economic growth in Nagorno-Karabakh .The Guardian

 

18:38, 22 August, 2012

 

YEREVAN, AUGUST 22, ARMENPRESS: The leafy boulevards of Stepanakert,

capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, are beginning to attract visitors. As

Armenpress reports citing The Guardian, in many ways, Stepanakert

resembles a small American town on the rise. Its main boulevards have

been repaved, locals stroll through the renovated central square past

its elegant fountain, and hotels have sprouted on every other block to

hold the new influx of visitors.

 

Not long ago much of the city was in ruins and the economy virtually

non-existent. Today locals meander along leafy streets lined with new

banks, stores and government buildings. A tourism industry is slowly

taking root, as travellers from across the world descend on the tiny

republic, population about 141,000, in increasing numbers.

 

Yet ordinary Karabakh Armenians are trying to capitalise on the

relative post-war stability. Even as border tensions have escalated

in recent years, which have seen deadly skirmishes between Armenian

and Azeri forces, small-time businessman Ashot Simonyan says foreign

visitors have continued to stream through his spare rental apartments.

 

"Everyone who comes here really loves it," he says with a salesman's

grin. "We have everything a tourist needs, it's completely normal

here."

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