In 2023, Azerbaijan received 2.1 million foreign visitors. And in the first 6 months of this year, 1.2 million foreigners have arrived in our country, an increase of 34 percent compared with the same period last year.
Mohamed Muradov, director of the Department of Tourism Policy and Strategy of the Azerbaijani National Tourism Agency, said at the "SCO Exhibition Zone - The Promotion Conference of Logistics and Trade in Azerbaijan" in Baku.
He said domestic tourism was restored in 2022, and 5.2 million citizens of the country made tourism trips within the country, 20 percent more than in 2019. In 2023, the tourist attraction and public employment sector produced 2.7 billion tons of UDM, an increase of 22 percent compared with 2022. Overall, the share of the tourism sector in the economy has reached pre-pandemic levels, or 2.4 per cent.