BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 18. Around 56,021 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in March 2024, which is 27 percent higher than in the same period of 2023, Trend reports.
According to the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan, 43,966 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in the same period last year.
Meanwhile, 147,418 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan from January through March this year, which is 24 percent higher than the figure for the same period in 2023 (119,222 people).
Besides, 513,413 foreigners visited Azerbaijan from January through March this year, which is 39 percent more than in the same period of 2023 (369,072).
However, 2,086,548 foreigners visited Azerbaijan in 2023, which is more than 30.2 percent higher than in 2022 (1,602,600), and 625,106 people from Russia, which is 39.9 percent higher than in 2022 (446,831).
To note, a total of 4,218,781 Russian citizens visited Azerbaijan in 2017–2023 (2017: 853,082, 2018: 878,391, 2019: 932,198, 2020: 225,214, 2021: 257,959, 2022: 446,831, and 2023: 625,106).
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