BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 30. A total of 108,516 tourists from Central Asian countries visited Azerbaijan from January through October 2023, which is 85 percent higher than the similar period of 2022 (58,707 people), Trend reports, referring to the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The number of tourists from Kazakhstan amounted to 47,867 (88 percent year-on-year growth), Uzbekistan - 31,416 (52 percent year-on-year growth), Turkmenistan - 20,915 (166 percent year-on-year growth), Kyrgyzstan - 4,454 (76 percent year-on-year growth), Tajikistan - 3,864 (79 percent year-on-year growth).
More than 1,724 million tourists visited Azerbaijan in the reporting period (a 30 percent increase).
In 2022, more than 1,602 million foreign citizens visited Azerbaijan, which is more than twice as much as in 2021 (790,062 tourists), and 73,823 tourists from Central Asian countries, which is 4.75 times more than in 2021 (15,516 tourists).
A total of 411,141 people visited Azerbaijan from Central Asian countries in 2017-2022 (from Kazakhstan 167,052, Turkmenistan 119,201, Uzbekistan 96,278, Kyrgyzstan 15,467, Tajikistan 13,143).