摘要：Tourism plays a principal role in the development of countries. It has an economic, social, cultural, environmental and political impacts. The article discusses the essence and the main impacts of tourism in the economy, presents the statistics of the sphere, evaluates tourism impact in Armenia by calculating tourism multiplier effect, the linear correlation coefficient R of Pearson between the number of incoming tourists and the GDP of the country. The balance of payments of travel account and its sub accounts, tourism competitiveness index are analized in the article and, as a result, several suggestions are made towards tourism enhancement in Armenia.
