In the third quarter of this year, the total number of overnight stays in the hotels of Azerbaijan amounted to 645.9 thousand, which is approximately the indicator in the first half of this year, reports Turan with reference to the State Statistics Committee.
Hotel activities are gradually restored. For the first nine months of this year, the number of overnight stays increased compared with the same period of 2020 by 66.3%. The city of Baku, as well as traditional recreation regions (Khachmaz, Gabala, Shabran, Guba) accounts for 75.1% of spent resistant tourists.
While the hotel costs mainly at the expense of local tourism. Because of the pandemic and continuing restrictive events, citizens of Azerbaijan can not fully leave the country’s limits, which increased visits to local hotels 2.5 times. This year, the number of overnight stay of foreign tourists (241 thousand spending beds) decreased by 35%. The proportion of the hotel Baku in the choice of foreign tourists in the night amounted to 83%.
This year, the country’s hotels have rescued at the provided rooms and services of 154.1 million manat, 62.4% more than in January-September 2020. Of these, 64 million manat entered July-September.