Concept Vision Development
1. Introduction
country population city population
2 986 100 1 074 000
Yerevan overview
city density tourists per year in Armenia
4783,2 ab/km2 1 191 910
(international tourist in 2016)
distance to airport GDP per capita
11 km to Zvartnots 3 606.15 $
In order to provide successful strategy for the Master Plan project and
sustainable business model for the development it is crucial to obtain a
complete understanding of the region and the city. Investigating tourism sector was fundamental for the developing business
strategy and facilities for the Noah ethnographical district, where visitors
and inhabitants are our main focus groups.
Starting from a basic data as country and city population and amount of
tourist per year we noticed that Armenia has an impressive ratio of tourist
to the citizens: 1,2 million of tourist to the 3 million of state citizens. For
example, France, which is the most visited destination in the world has 82,7
million of visitors to 67,1 millions of citizens. Indeed, the ratio of France
is higher, but it still shows the importance of tourism in the country. It is
necessary to add that tourism has a dynamic to growth and for the last 10
years the number of international tourists in Armenia increases from 0.4
million to 1.2. The average visitor spends 3 days and $785.1, that has a
signiicant impact on GDP. Another vital aspect is the dynamic of Yerevan city population. In fact,
it is stable during last 15 years and that means that our project shouldn’t
consider the rapid growth of the city density and could gently work with a
medium and low-rise buildings valorizing human scale and increasing the
quality of life.
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