ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 18. Over 16,500 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan from January through March 2024, Trend reports.
As per data provided by Azerbaijan's State Tourism Agency, during this period, 16,522 Kazakh tourists visited Azerbaijan, which is 135 percent more than in the same period in 2023 (7,043).
Thus, Kazakhstan entered the top 10 countries from which the most tourists arrived in Azerbaijan in the first quarter of 2024, settling for 6th place.
In addition, 7,375 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Azerbaijan in March 2024 alone.
According to the agency, among the Central Asian countries, Azerbaijan attracted the highest number of tourists from Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, 58,072 Kazakh tourists visited Azerbaijan in 2023, which is 91 percent more than in the same period in 2022 (30,350).