Providing foreigners with best quality and wide tourism opportunities, Turkey is the favorite destination for Azerbaijani travelers. Now it is time to attract more Turkish visitors to Azerbaijan. Taking into account recent successes of Azerbaijan achieved in the tourism sphere, the country needs to realize its full potential.

Azerbaijani citizens can visit 66 countries in a visa-free regime, Trend reports with reference to the updated Passport Index global ranking prepared by the company Henley & Partners.

Due to the rapid development of the tourism sector in the modern world, any person wishing to travel can visit almost any spot on the planet. The only thing one will necessarily need is the passport.

A visa-free regime between Azerbaijan and the EU is possible, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Herbert Salber, who visited Azerbaijan, told Trend Apr. 21.

The EU Council on February 27 adopted a regulation on visa liberalization for Georgians travelling to the EU for a period of stay of 90 days in any 180-day period.

Kazakhstan will introduce a visa-free regime for 45 countries of Europe, Asia and America since January 1 2017, according to Kazakh Foreign Ministry.

After the agreement on simplification of visa regime with the EU is successfully implemented, Azerbaijan will request an action plan for a visa-free regime with Europe.

The European Parliament is expected to vote against granting a visa-free regime to Turkey in September due to the reaction of the country’s authorities to the military coup attempt, a source in the European Parliament told RIA Novosti July 22.

Europe has always had a fear of the Turkic people, in the basis of which is the fear of foreigners in general, Mehmet Fatih Oztarsu, vice chairman of the Turkish analytical center Strategic Outlook, told Trend May 25.

The EU-Turkey negotiations on the visa-free regime are extremely rocky, Theodore Karasik, analyst on the Middle East and senior advisor at Risk Insurance Management in Dubai, told Trend May 16.