Yerevan is hosting an international conference of the UN World Tourism Organization today. A declaration will be passed, Armenian Deputy Minister for Economy Ara Petrosyan said.
The conference will focus on common humanitarian values and cultural diversity of the 21st century.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and UNWTO head Taleb Refai agreed to hold the conference in Armenia last year.
Delegations will arrive from the US, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Georgia and CIS states.
Armenia will also host a session of the CIS Council for Tourism. Yerevan is hosting the session for the first time. It will be attended by Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine.
