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The work analyzes and discusses various issues concerned with tourism development in protected areas of Armenia as different types of tourism in protected areas are becoming more and more popular in the country. This research attempts to collect and observe the information on tourism in protected areas and suggest sustainable tourism development in Armenia. The major goal of the research is to examine current situation of tourism in protected areas of Armenia, to discover the key issues in this field, to analyze and discuss tourism potential of national parks, and to suggest recommendations for its development considering the outcome of the analysis.

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Anahit Aghababyan has master s degrees in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University in Budapest (Hungary) and in Russian Linguistics from Yerevan State University (Armenia). Anahit is currently working at the Ministry of Nature Protection of Armenia.

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