BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 6. A total of 61,471 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in April 2024, which is 31 percent more than in the same period of 2023, Trend reports.
According to the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan, 47,054 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in the same period last year.
A total of 208,889 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan from January through April this year, which is 26 percent higher than the figure for the same period in 2023 (166,276 people).
Meanwhile, 726,284 foreigners visited Azerbaijan from January through April this year, which is 39 percent more than in the same period of 2023 (523,305).
Besides, 2,086,548 foreigners visited Azerbaijan in 2023, which is more than 30.2 percent higher than the figure for 2022 (1,602,600), including 625,106 from Russia, which is 39.9 percent higher than the figure for 2022 (446,831).
To note, overall 4,218,781 Russian citizens visited Azerbaijan in 2017–2023 (2017 - 853,082, 2018 - 878,391, 2019 - 932,198, 2020 - 225,214, 2021 - 257,959, 2022 - 446,831, and 2023 - 625,106).
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