The WTM-Excel London-2014 international travel exhibition drew to an end on November 6. Delegates of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic also showed active participation in the exhibition and presented the potential of tourism in Artsakh in the British travel market, reports tert.am, according to the Department for Tourism and Protection of the Historical Environment adjunct to the Government of the NKR.

In addition to disseminating informative materials, the delegates organized a wine-tasting event and treated visitors to traditional meals, increasing the number of people visiting Artsakh’s pavilion.

The Azerbaijanis also organized the already traditional provocations. On the second and final days of the exhibition, a group of young Azerbaijanis surrounded Artsakh’s pavilion with Azerbaijani national flags and tried to hinder the efforts of the delegates by closing the entrance to the pavilion. It should be mentioned that there were employees of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Great Britain among the “demonstrators”. The delegations of the NKR and the RA helped stop the provocation, and security officers removed the young Azerbaijani outlaws from the area.

According to Head of the Department for Tourism and Protection of the Historical Environment adjunct to the Government of the NKR Sergey Shahverdyan, who was the head of Artsakh’s delegation at the exhibition in London, “the Azerbaijanis’ recent actions at international travel exhibitions are mainly due to the fact that the United Nations World Organization for Tourism didn’t pass Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian resolution, that is, the resolution “On Preventing Advocacy for Tourism in the Occupied Territories” introduced by Azerbaijan during the session of the UN Executive Council in Samarghand in October 2014. During the session, all countries didn’t approve the above mentioned resolution introduced by Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis’ demonstrations are aimed at making the NKR’s participation in large international exhibitions physically impossible, but those demonstrations are in vain,” Sergey Shahverdyan mentioned.

World Travel Market is considered the largest travel exhibition during which thousands of companies and almost all countries present their potential and achievements in tourism.