Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 25
By Ilhama Isabalayeva - Trend:
From January to September 2018, 2,446,800 accommodations were registered in hotels in Azerbaijan, which is 24.4 percent more compared to the same period 2017, the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan said in a message on Oct. 25.
Baku accounted for 57.8 percent of all accommodations, Gabala - 10.6 percent, Khachmaz - 6.6 percent, Naftalan and Guba - 3.9 percent each, Gusar - 3.8 percent, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic - 2.7 percent, Gakh - 1.1 percent, Ganja and Lankaran - 0.8 percent each, and other districts of Azerbaijan - 8 percent.
The number of foreigners and stateless persons who booked accommodations in Azerbaijani hotels also increased by 31.3 percent compared to the same period of 2017, reaching 1,651,700, which is 67.5 percent of total hotel accommodations.
Some 13.3 percent of those accounted for the citizens of the UAE, 11.4 percent - Russia, 9.9 percent - Saudi Arabia, 5.2 percent - Iran, 4 percent - Turkey, 3.8 percent - Israel, 3.6 percent - India, 3.3 percent - Kuwait, 2.7 percent - the UK and Iraq each, 2.6 percent - the US, 2.5 percent - Qatar, 2.2 percent - Pakistan, 1.5 percent - Kazakhstan, 1, 4 percent - Oman, 1.2 percent - Germany, 1.1 percent - Bahrain, 1 percent - Ukraine, 26.6 percent - other countries.
Accommodation of Azerbaijani citizens in hotels increased by 12 percent (reaching 795,100 accommodations) compared to the same period of 2017.