BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 17. The number of Kazakh tourists visiting Azerbaijan amounted to 5,300 in May 2023, Trend reports.
According to Azerbaijan's State Tourism Agency, this figure is 51.4 percent more compared to the previous month (3,500) and 76.67 percent more compared to the same month last year (3,000).
In May, Kazakhstan ranked 6th in the top 10 countries whose citizens visited Azerbaijan. The share of tourists from Kazakhstan amounted to 2.8 percent of the total figure.
According to the agency, among the Central Asian countries, Azerbaijan attracted the highest number of tourists from Kazakhstan, followed by Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan disclosed that in 2022, the number of foreign visitors to Azerbaijan reached 1,602,600, surpassing the previous year's figure of 790,062.