Turkmen tourists started visiting Azerbaijan 3 times more often

Turkmenistan was among the top 15 countries that visited Azerbaijan in March this year. This is reported on the website of Trend new agency with reference to the data of the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan.

A total of 1,900 Turkmen tourists visited Azerbaijan in March 2023, which is 3.3 times more than the number of tourists in the same period last year.

Currently, there is a tendency of growth in the number of Turkmen tourists visiting Azerbaijan. Thus, in 2022, more than 11 thousand people visited this country, while in 2021 this figure amounted to 2,738 people.

Azerbaijan is becoming a more attractive tourism destination for citizens of Turkmenistan and other countries. It is noted that 136.5 thousand people from different countries of the world visited Azerbaijan in March this year, which exceeds the indicators of previous periods by 42% (95 thousand foreign tourists arrived in the country in March 2022).