BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, December 19. Azerbaijan recorded a rise in the number of tourists traveling from Kyrgyzstan from January through November 2023, Trend reports.
Data from the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan indicates that a total of 5,184 tourists from Kyrgyzstan visited Azerbaijan during this period, which is 78 percent higher than in the same period in 2022 (2,889 tourists).
In comparison, 3,928 citizens of Kyrgyzstan traveled to Azerbaijan in the same period of 2019, the year before the COVID-19 restrictions.
In November 2023, Azerbaijan was visited by 730 Kyrgyz citizens, which is 95 percent more than in November 2022 (373 tourists). For comparison, 498 tourists from Kyrgyzstan visited Azerbaijan in November 2019.
The visits of Kyrgyzstan’s tourists to Azerbaijan in 2023 by month are as follows: January (141 tourists), February (238 tourists), March (372 tourists), April (423 tourists), May (559 tourists), June (475 tourists), July (495 tourists), August (538 tourists), September (600 tourists), and October (613 tourists).
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan was visited by 121,467 tourists from Central Asian countries from January through November 2023, which is 83.16 percent higher than the figure for the same period in 2022 (66,316 people).