Azerbaijan, Pakistan To Boost Tourism Cooperation
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Laman Ismayilova read more Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Tourism Agency Fuad Naghiyev
and federal Minister of Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource
Development Sajid Hussain Turi have discussed prospects of tourism
cooperation.
Speaking at the meeting, Fuad Naghiyev noted the increase in the
number of visitors from Pakistan, Azernews reports.
He emphasised that Azerbaijan's tourism opportunities are
promoted at international tourism exhibitions in Pakistan.
The minister Sajid Hussain Turi stressed the importance of
exchanging experience on various types of tourism, especially
mountain tourism.
The meeting also discussed the organization of promotion and
publicity events for the purpose of increasing the mutual tourist
exchange between the two countries, as well as the organization of
information tours for the delegations of bloggers and media
representatives, and the issues of increasing the number of direct
flights.
Currently, there are direct flights from Lahore, Pakistan to
Baku twice a week.
According to the number of visits to Azerbaijan, Pakistan is
among the target markets that have fully recovered after the
pandemic. In 2022, it ranked 7th with the number of 51,700
visitors.,
An increase of 23 and 43 percent was observed in the number of
visitors from Pakistan in the comparison of January-May 2023 with
the corresponding period of 2019 and 2022.
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