BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 11. 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 of the same period of 2022 (66,316 people), Trend reports.
The Azerbaijan State Tourism Agency's data shows that the number of tourists from Kazakhstan amounted to 53,249 (year-on-year growth by 90.74 percent), Uzbekistan - 35,222 (year-on-year growth by 49.74 percent), Turkmenistan - 23,401 (year-on-year growth by 2.46 times), Kyrgyzstan - 5,184 (year-on-year growth by 78.82 percent), Tajikistan - 4,411 (year-on-year growth by 78.37 percent).
A total of 1,893,679 tourists visited Azerbaijan in the reporting period (29.81 percent growth).
A total of 1,602,600 foreign citizens visited Azerbaijan in 2022, which is more than double the figure for 2021 (790,062 people), and 73,823 people from Central Asian countries, which is 4.75 times higher than the figure for 2021 (15,516 people).
A total of 411,141 people visited Azerbaijan from Central Asian countries in 2017-2022 (from Kazakhstan - 167,052, Turkmenistan - 119,201, Uzbekistan - 96,278, Kyrgyzstan - 15,467, Tajikistan - 13,143).
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