YEREVAN, MARCH 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Tourism management courses will be conducted by lecturers of George Washington University (US) in Yerevan on March 17-24. The lecturers have many years' experience in tourism, hospitality and entertainment and will give advice on brand formation as well. The courses are being conducted by George Washington University in cooperation with the USAID-financed Competitive Armenian Private Sector (CAPS) project and the American University of Armenia (AUA), and are aimed at providing modern information to tourism managers, enabling them to be prepared to overcome the challenges of today's tourism sector. The Head of the Tourism and Territorial Economic Development Department of the RA Ministry of Economy Mekhak Apresian said on the first day of the courses that Armenia has implemented a lot of programs on development of the tourism sector in recent years. "One of the major tasks of state policy is to encourage the development of Armenia's tourism by using human resources," he stated.

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