Travel and transport agencies Gyumri

Long reserved almost exclusively for freight trains, the station east of Gyumri has been back in service since the March 2018 launch of a modern-design electric train to Yerevan. It is not a TGV, since it takes 2 hours to cover the 130 km in one go, but on the scale of Armenia, it is a big step, and at the experimental stage since there are only 4 shuttles on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. While waiting for the other announced trains, there is always the Yerevan-Tbilisi, which connects the capital to Gyumri in more than 3 hours

Incoming agencies are rather rare in Gyumri, as visits are mostly prepared in advance by Yerevan agencies. The Shirak Tours agency is the pioneer of its kind, and therefore knows the terrain well and will be able to advise individual travellers especially, staying in Gyumri, for their visit of the city and the Shirak region. Its services range from the organization of tours with professional and at least English-speaking guides, to accommodation, including car rental with driver and the sale of train and plane tickets.

Gumri airport has been refurbished; old equipment, sent to Stproducakert, has been replaced by more modern infrastructure, which now guarantees international connections. A local Taron Avia company has since 2017 provided more or less regular flights between Gyumri, Moscow and Krasnodar in Russia, and has been competed since the Russian low-cost company Pobeda, also providing connections with Russian cities.