Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 30 / Trend U.Ismayilova/
Weekly turnover of the Azerbaijani domestic tourism is around 4 million manat, given the cost of a three-day rest worth 200 - 250 manat per person, Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister, Abulfaz Garayev said.
"Azerbaijan does not have a mechanism for counting statistics of domestic tourism. The numbers are determined only by work of the operating tourist facilities," the minister said. "Such statistics should not only be determined by this indicator, because in the country's regions, vacationers rent private houses or cottages, which refer to rural tourism."
The statistics of rural tourism is not certain and the results of the ministry's monitoring in the Nabran resort area, the reservation of rooms on weekdays was 70-80 percent, sometimes even 100 percent. Rooms in the two health centers of the Azerbaijani southern zone had been reserved by 100 percent, in other truism faciulities at least by 60 percent on weekdays, Garayev added.
In accordance with the monitoring, domestic tourism in Azerbaijan is quite popular, but it is difficult to state exact figures due to the lack of mechanism for counting statistics, the minister said.
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