Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 27 / Trend A. Akhundov /
Roughly 486,381 Azerbaijani citizens visited Turkey in 2010. It is 14.67 percent more than last year, the data was given by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Roughly 424,155 Azerbaijani citizens visited Turkey in 2009.
Roughly 1.7 percent of the total number of foreigners visiting Turkey in 2010 fell to Azerbaijan, whereas two years ago the figure was 1.57 percent.
The total number of foreigners visiting Turkey in 2010 amounted to 28.632 million people. It exceeds the index of 2009 by 5.74 percent. During this period, most foreigners arrived from Germany, Russia, Great Britain and Iran.
Roughly 40,998 Azerbaijani citizens (3.52 percent of the total number of tourists) visited Turkey in December 2010, while in December 2009, roughly 32,314 Azerbaijani citizens (2.64 percent) visited this country.