ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, October 10. Azerbaijan received 18,494 visitors from Turkmenistan from January through September this year, Trend reports.
According to the data provided by Azerbaijan's State Tourism Agency, these figures are more than 2.8 times higher than the value of the same period last year (6,432 people).
In particular, 2,331 tourists from Turkmenistan visited Azerbaijan in September 2023, which is 64.4 percent more than in the same month of 2022 (1,416).
Furthermore, more than 1.53 million citizens of foreign countries visited Azerbaijan in the first nine months of this year.
Meanwhile, 95,871 tourists from Central Asian countries visited Azerbaijan from January through September this year, which is 1 percent less than in the same period last year (96,955 tourists).