Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 27
By Taleh Mursagulov - Trend:
Russia remains a priority market of tourism industry for Azerbaijan, Chairman of the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan Fuad Nagiyev said.
He was speaking Sept. 27 at a round table meeting on the “Development of Cooperation in Tourism”, held as part of the 9th Russia-Azerbaijan interregional forum.
Nagiyev noted that in January-February 2018, Azerbaijan was visited by over 600,000 tourists from Russia, which is 20 percent more than in the same period last year, and the positive dynamics persists.
He added that Russian tourists always feel comfortable in Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijani citizens feel no less comfortable in Russia.