In the first 9 months of this year Azerbaijan was visited by 1 million 719 thousand tourists. This is 169,400 or 10.9% more than in the comparable period of 2015. This was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on October 7.
The influx of tourists is mainly observed from Iran (up 62.9%), Kazakhstan (17.2%) and Russia (7.6%). In the first nine months a special pace of growth in the tourist influx was observed from the UAE - 34 times.
Only in the summer the regions of the country received 751,353 local and foreign tourists, 23.5% more than in the summer of 2015. -----08D
Economics
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Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers approved a detailed framework for the preparation of sector-specific strategic plans aimed at guiding the country’s economic development over the medium term.
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Azerbaijan’s ADY Express, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, signed several strategic agreements on the sidelines of the Logitrans Türkiye 2024 exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey, reinforcing its commitment to expanding freight transport services along the Middle Corridor.
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Azerbaijan plans to establish state-of-the-art battery storage facilities for green energy with a total capacity of 350 MW within the next 4-5 years, a well-informed source in the Ministry of Energy told Turan.
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Shareholders of the Caspian gas condensate "Absheron" project plan to approve the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) in December, laying the groundwork for full-scale development of the field, an informed source told Turan.
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