Baku, Azerbaijan, April 18
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
Baku, Astana and Minsk lead in the rating of Russian citizens’ favorite cities to visit in the CIS countries, the TurStat analytical agency reported.
Russian spring holidays take place from April 29 to May 2, as well as, May 9, 2018. The rating is compiled from the analysis of the popularity of tourist trips in the spring of 2018.
The spring weekend tours are most often chosen by Russian tourists traveling to the CIS countries, according to the agency’s data.
Russian tourists visit the cities of the CIS countries, averagely, for 3 days and spend $65 per day for accommodation and meals.
Cheap tours to CIS cities chosen by Russian tourists include Chisinau, Bishkek and Tashkent, and "luxury" tours include Astana and Baku.
The most popular cities of the CIS countries for Russian tourists in spring 2018 also include Almaty (Kazakhstan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Chisinau (Moldova), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan).
In recent years, Azerbaijan has been actively developing its tourism sector, attracting ever more tourists from all over the world. As part of activities to expand tourism popularity, Azerbaijan held such large-scale projects as Eurovision, European Games, Islamic Games and etc.
Presently, Azerbaijan is preparing to hold Formula-1 event, successfully organized previously in 2016 and 2017.