摘要：Nowadays tourism is developing rapidly worldwide. The main tourism statistics, tourism competitiveness indexes in countries are presented and analyzed in the article. The article discusses the main trends of tourism development in the world. In addition, the current state of tourism sphere in the Republic of Armenia is presented as a comparison. Tourism will surely continue to expand in the future as well. The extension of both international and domestic tourism is profitable for countries. The Internet has greatly influenced the development of tourism and will do so in the future too. Now it has become easier to find any information at any moment on where to go and how to organize travelling beforehand (booking, maps, tickets, etc.). Overall, tourism is a tremendous industry worldwide, which grows very fast. In fact, tourism as a global sphere attracts high investments, the market credits at high rates and being tied with other branches directly or indirectly results in positive changes of development indicators.
