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In July 2019, 365 thousand foreign travelers visited Azerbaijan, which is an increase of 10.6% compared
to July 2018. More than one third, 35%, arrived from Russia; the increase in the number of travelers from
Russia amounted to 11 thousand or 10%, compared with the same month of 2018. The largest increase
of travelers, 12 thousand or 26%, is observed for Georgia: 61 thousand came in July. From countries of
the Middle East, the number of travelers decreased by 7 thousand or 10% to 60 thousand. It should be
noted that the number of travelers from Saudi Arabia increased by 25% to a record of 29 thousand; for
other countries of the Middle East like Iraq, the UAE, Oman and Kuwait, a decrease is observed. From
Turkey, Iran, Central and South Asia arrived 29, 21, 14 and 12 thousand travelers, a growth amounting
to 6%, 10%, 41% and 25%, respectively. As in recent months, India (7 thousand; 81% increase) and
Pakistan (5 thousand; 13% decrease) are the main tourist markets of South Asia, while Kazakhstan (6
thousand; 26% increase) and Turkmenistan (6 thousand; 68% increase) of Central Asia.
In the period January-July of the current year, Azerbaijan was visited by 1.8 million In July, 10.6% more foreign guest in Azerbaijan, which is 122 thousand and 7.4% more compared with the first seven months of 2018. The largest increase is observed for travelers from Georgia: 76 thousand or 23% more travelers came to Azerbaijan.
There are also substantial increases in travelers from Central and South Asia, by 39% and 44%,
respectively. For Russia and Turkey, top touristic markets with 542 and 176 thousand travelers,
increases of about 4% are observed. Emerging markets are countries of South and Central Asia, the
most rapid growth in the number of travelers being observed for India, 80% to 33 thousand, and
Turkmenistan, 81% to 27 thousand. The number of travelers from Iran decreased by 23% to 127
thousand, those from the Middle East by 6% to 205 thousand.
It is worth noting that from Western European countries, a region which traditionally is of only limited
touristic relevance for Azerbaijan, the number of travelers increased by 14 thousand or 25% to 71
thousand.
Methodological note: The numbers of foreign travellers are counts of border crossings as registered by
the State Border Service. These numbers cover touristic visitors but also other travellers who do not fulfil
the definition of being a touristic visitor given by the International Recommendations for Tourism
Statistics 2008, such as border workers, long-term workers and students and patients, etc.; hence, the
inbound tourism flow is slightly lower than the numbers of travellers provided in this report.
Table 1: Number of foreign travelers from various countries and regions in July 2019 and in January-July
2019, and similar figures for 2018.
