Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 20 / Trend, A. Taghiyeva /
Along with existing tourism projects, Azerbaijan and Turkey could create a single tour package, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismail Alper Joshgun told Trend today.
"The countries could implement a project to redirect tourists," the ambassador said. "So, tourists, who visit Turkey may familiarize themselves with Azerbaijan's tourism potential and vice versa. Tourists could get the opportunity to visit the two countries. This envisages changing tour packages that involve rendering the services of visiting two countries within one tour package."
According to the ambassador, despite its relatively small territory, Azerbaijan has unique natural and climatic features, which makes it very interesting to tourists.
The number of tourists in Turkey in 2012 increased by 1.7 percent, reaching 36.7 million people compared to 2011, the Turkish Statistics Institute's report said earlier.
Turkey's tourism revenues in 2012 increased by 1.8 percent reaching $ 23.4 billion compared to the same period in 2011.
According to the information, around 75.1 percent of tourism revenue was received from foreign tourists.