Azeri tourists increase in Turkey

According to official statistics in 2011 Turkey was visited by more than half a million Azeri citizens, and this figure is likely to increase in 2012.

In 2011 Turkey received more than 31 million tourists and this is world’s 7th favourite tourist destination. Turkish tourism says the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway system, will also add to the number of tourists coming from Azerbaijan and other countries from that region into Turkey. To date, movement between Turkey and Azerbaijan is by air or car.