DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, September 8. The number of tourists from Tajikistan visiting Azerbaijan amounted to 2,902 people from January through August 2023, which is 2.1 times more than in the same period in 2022 (1,320 tourists), Trend reports.
As per the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan, this figure increased 43 percent compared to the year before COVID-19 restrictions, 2019, when 2,027 citizens of Tajikistan visited Azerbaijan.
In August 2023, Azerbaijan was visited by 507 Tajik citizens, which is 15 percent more than in August 2022 (440 tourists). For comparison, 305 tourists from Tajikistan visited Azerbaijan in August 2019.
The visits of Tajikistan tourists to Azerbaijan by month are as follows:
January 2023: 165
February 2023: 177
March 2023: 317
April 2023: 294
May 2023: 299
June 2023: 452
July 2023: 691
August 2023: 507
In the first six months of 2023, Azerbaijan was visited by 53,210 tourists from Central Asian countries, which is 2.22 times higher than the figure for the same period in 2022 (23,937).
A total of 2,736 tourists from Tajikistan visited Azerbaijan in 2022, which was 3.3 times more compared to 2021. Meanwhile, only 42 Azerbaijani citizens traveled to Tajikistan in 2022, and 59 citizens did so in 2021.