BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, September 8. A total of 3,241 tourists from Kyrgyzstan arrived in Azerbaijan from January through August 2023, Trend reports.
Data from the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan indicates that this figure increased 77 percent compared to the same period in 2022 when 1,830 individuals visited. It even surpassed the numbers from 2019, the year before the COVID-19 restrictions, when 2,500 citizens from Kyrgyzstan visited Azerbaijan.
A total of 538 citizens of Kyrgyzstan visited Azerbaijan in August 2023, which is 73 percent more than August 2022 (311 tourists). For comparison, in August 2019, 417 citizens from Kyrgyzstan visited Azerbaijan.
The inflow of visitors from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan by month from January 2023:
January 2023: 141
February 2023: 238
March 2023: 372
April 2023: 423
May 2023: 559
June 2023: 475
July 2023: 495
August 2023: 538
The number of tourists from Kyrgyzstan who visited Azerbaijan amounted to 3,240 in 2022, which is an over 3.8-times increase compared to the 836 tourists in 2021. However, the 2022 figure is still lower than the 4,460 visitors in 2019.
On the other hand, the number of tourists from Azerbaijan traveling to Kyrgyzstan increased from 357 people in 2021 to 754 people in 2022.