2024-04-23 16:53:22
In January-March of this year, 513.5 thousand foreigners and stateless persons from 171 countries arrived in Azerbaijan, which is 39.2% more than in the corresponding period last year.
Day.Az was informed about this by the State Statistics Committee.
The most tourists came from Russia – 28.7%, the least – from Belarus (1.2%).
Compared to the same period in 2023, the number of Chinese tourists increased by 3.7 times, and from Germany by 49.5%.
Compared to the period from January to March 2023, the number of arrivals from EU countries increased by 1.6 times, amounting to 18.6 thousand people, from the Gulf countries – by 1.5 times (91.4 thousand people), from the CIS countries – by 31% (198.3 thousand people). 67.6% of foreigners and stateless persons who visited Azerbaijan used air transport.
During the specified period (January-March), the number of Azerbaijani citizens who visited foreign countries increased by 31.7%, amounting to 472.3 thousand people.
The number of citizens traveling to Iran increased by 40.6%, to Georgia – by 29%, to Turkey – by 28.1%, to Russia – by 20.1%.
The majority of Azerbaijani citizens visited Turkey – 38.3%, the least – Iran (8.6%).
In January-March 2024, 67.4% of Azerbaijani citizens used air transport.
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