BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 8. The number of tourists arriving from Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan amounted to 1,900 in February 2023, Trend reports via the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The figure increased by over 6 times, compared to February 2022 (279 tourists). This figure has also increased by 35.7 percent, compared to January 2023 (1,400 tourists).
The number of people visiting Azerbaijan from Uzbekistan amounted to 25,920 in 2022, which is a six-fold increase, compared to 2021 (3,959 people). Uzbekistan ranked 11th in terms of the number of visitors coming to Azerbaijan during the reporting period.
According to the Uzbek State Statistics Committee, a total of 10,400 foreigners from Azerbaijan visited Uzbekistan in 2022.
Overall in February 2023, some 113,473 tourists visited Azerbaijan, which is an increase of 49 percent, compared to the same period last year – 76,376.
About 232,567 foreigners visited Azerbaijan for tourism purposes during the first two months of this year— an increase of 55 percent, compared to the reporting period in 2022 (150,433 tourists).
Meanwhile, in 2022, over 1.6 million foreigners visited Azerbaijan, which is more than twice the figure for the same period in 2021 (790,062).