ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 8. Over 35,000 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan from January through August 2023, Trend reports.
As per data provided by Azerbaijan's State Tourism Agency, during this period, 35,471 Kazakh tourists visited Azerbaijan, which is 85 percent more than in the same period in 2022 (19,222).
In addition, 7,784 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan in August 2023, which is 112 percent more compared to the same month in 2022 (3,674).
Thus, Kazakhstan entered the top 10 countries from which the most tourists arrived in Azerbaijan in August and took seventh place.
According to the agency, among the Central Asian countries, Azerbaijan attracted the highest number of tourists from Kazakhstan.
In general, 411,141 tourists from Central Asian countries visited Azerbaijan (from Kazakhstan: 167,052, Turkmenistan: 119,201, Uzbekistan: 96,278, Kyrgyzstan: 15,467, and Tajikistan: 13,143) during 2017–2022.