the road to change would be long.

Definitely. Especially with how it's such a small nation. Yerevan hardly even feels like a city. But there's a lot of potential in its natural spaces, which are seeing more and more attention again. Similar to what the Soviets did with their resort towns. The same happened in Georgia and those areas are being revived with tourism in mind. Even the abandoned spas and hotels are being purchased up with intent to renovate them. Armenia is definitely a bit behind, in some ways it is nice, in others not. But even in the past two years I have started to notice that shift.

The biggest for me is that now English tea brands are sold here, so I'm very happy about that haha