BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 10. The number of tourists traveling from Tajikistan to Azerbaijan amounted to 317 people in March 2023, which is a 2.4 times increase year-on-year, Trend reports via the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan.
The number of tourists in March this year exceeded the indicators of the pre-COVID-19 period (231 tourists in 2019, and 182 tourists in 2018).
In February 2023, 177 tourists from Tajikistan visited Azerbaijan and 165 people in January 2023.
Overall, a total of 659 tourists from Tajikistan visited Azerbaijan from January through March 2023, which is 77 percent more than in the same period of 2022.
The number of tourists traveling from Tajikistan to Azerbaijan amounted to 2,736 people in 2022, which is an increase of 3.3 times, compared to 820 tourists in 2021.
It is still a decrease compared to the pre-Covid 19 periods. For instance, the number of tourists from Tajikistan to Azerbaijan accounted for 3,450 people in 2019.
At the same time, only 42 Azerbaijani citizens traveled to Tajikistan in 2022, and 59 citizens in 2021.