756, 8 thousand foreigners and stateless persons were hosted by Azerbaijan during Jan-Nov 2020. The number is 3, 9 times less compared to the corresponding period of the prior year. The visits made to Azerbaijan were mainly for non-tourism purposes. With 23, 7 percent Georgians are top second visitors of the neighboring country.
69,7 percent of foreigners and stateless persons who arrived to Azerbaijan during Jan-Nov 2020 used railway and automobile, 27,9 percent - air and 2,4 percent - water transport, the State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan reports.
28,2 percent of the arrivals to Azerbaijan during the report period were from Russian Federation, 23,7 percent – Georgia, 19,5 percent - Turkey, 8,9 percent - Iran, 2,1 percent - Ukraine, 1,7 percent – India, 1,6 percent - Saudi Arabia, per 1,1 percent - the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan, per 1,0 percent Pakistan, Turkmenistan, per 0,9 percent – Kuwait and Great Britain, 0,8 percent – Belarus, per 0,7 percent – Uzbekistan and Iraq, per 0,5 percent – Germany and Israel, 5,0 percent - were citizens of other countries and 0,1 percent were stateless people.
80, 3 percent of the visitors were men and 19, 7 percent were women.
The number of arrivals from China to Azerbaijan decreased by 16,4 times, South Korea – 13,6 times, Israel - 10,7 times, Japan – 10,0 times, Poland – 9,9 times, Iraq – 9,2 times, Saudi Arabia - 8,6 times, Hungary – 8,4 times, the United Arab Emirates - 7,2 times, Oman and Canada – 7,1 times, the USA - 7,0 times, Turkmenistan - 6,1 times, France – 6,0 times, Germany and Qatar – 5,7 times, the Netherlands and Kazakhstan – 5,3 times, Great Britain – 5,2 times, Italy - 4,3 times.
In general, the number of arrivals from EU member countries decreased by 5,9 times and amounted to 22,1 thousand persons, from Gulf countries it decreased by 4,8 times and amounted to 105,3 thousand persons and from the CIS countries it decreased by 4,1 times and amounted to 259,3 thousand persons.
The number of citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan going abroad decreased by 4,5 times compared with January-November 2019 and amounted to 1135,0 thousand persons. 29,7 percent of the country citizens traveled to Iran, 26,8 percent - Georgia, 18,9 percent - Russian Federation, 15,7 percent – Turkey and 8,9 percent to other countries. 70, 2 percent of the travelers were men and 29, 8 percent were women. During this period, the number of citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan traveling to Iran decreased by 5,5 times, Georgia - 4,8 times, Russian Federation - 4,2 times, Turkey - 3,3 times.
In January-November 2020, 74,3 percent of the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan visited foreign countries using railway and automobile, 22,9 percent - air and 2,8 percent - water transport.
