ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 9. Over 42,000 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan from January through September 2023, Trend reports.
As per data provided by Azerbaijan's State Tourism Agency, during this period, 42,124 Kazakh tourists visited Azerbaijan, which is 38.8 percent more than in the same period in 2022 (30,350).
In addition, 6,653 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan in September 2023, which is 111 percent more compared to the same month in 2022 (3,151).
Thus, Kazakhstan entered the top 10 countries from which the most tourists arrived in Azerbaijan in September and took seventh place.
According to the agency, among the Central Asian countries, Azerbaijan attracted the highest number of tourists from Kazakhstan.
In September, 13,685 tourists from Central Asian countries visited Azerbaijan. In the same month of 2022, this figure was 9,164.
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.