BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 15. A total of 82,246 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in June 2024, which is 15 percent higher than in the same period of 2023, Trend reports.
According to the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan, 71,700 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan in the same period last year.
A total of 359,938 tourists from Russia visited Azerbaijan from January through June this year, which is 19 percent higher than the figure for the same period in 2023 (302,726 people).
Meanwhile, 1,231,104 foreigners visited Azerbaijan in the reporting period of the current year, which is 34 percent more than in the same period of 2023 (919,296).
However, 2,086,548 foreign citizens visited Azerbaijan in 2023, which is more than 30.2 percent more than the figure of 2022 (1,602,600), including 625,106 people from Russia, which is 39.9 percent more than the figure of 2022 (446,831).
To note, a total of 4,218,781 Russian citizens visited Azerbaijan from 2017 through 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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