Abulfas Garayev: "211 thousand tourists visited Azerbaijan this year"

Baku. 8 June. REPORT.AZ/ "If 174 thousand tourists arrived in Azerbaijan in May last year, this year the figure reached 211 thousand."

Report informs, Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan Abulfas Garayev told journalists.

According to him, during 5 months of last year, 768 thousand tourists this year, 956 thousand tourists visited Azerbaijan: "This means an increase of more than 200 tourists. Visa facilitation particularly affected this growth."