YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. No success is guaranteed in the tourism sector without a serious cooperation and unity between the state and private sectors. The RA Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Ara Petrosian stated this at the first event on cooperation of tourism represenatives on January 29. In his words, such events whose purpose is to present the newly created unions in the tourism sector and to find new ways of cooperation will become annual. Suzanna Azoyan, Marketing Director of the Armenian Tourism Development Agency (ATDA) - the event's organizer, told NT correspondent that previously the state torism sector, particularly ATDA, was cooperating with hotels and tourism agencies separately. According to her, shifting to the "official" cooperation level will make the work most efficient. "All tourism associations in Armenia - incoming tour operators, the Armenian Airways Office, the unions of Armenian hotels and Armenian restaurants, and the Guild of Tour Guides of Armenia will now receive cerificates allowing them to have a "decisive voice" of their sector in this sphere," S. Azoyan said.

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