Azerbaijan’s Agriculture Ministry is taking measure to develop rural tourism in the country, Chairperson of the board of the Agro Procurement and Supply OJSC under the ministry Leyla Mammadova said on December 18.

Travel companies in Azerbaijan sometimes try to denigrate their competitors, but this is not a way for development, Head of the Office of Azerbaijan’s State Tourism Agency Kanan Gasimov said, Trend reports Dec. 18.

The number of tourists visiting Azerbaijan increased by 11.1 percent year-on-year in the period of January to November reaching 2.9 million, Azerbaijani State Tourism Agency has reported.

Azerbaijan’s State Tourism Agency will open representative offices in the South Korea and Ukraine in 2020 as these countries have certain tourism potential for Azerbaijan.

The number of tourists visiting Azerbaijan will reach three million by the end of 2019, the head of Azerbaijan Tourism Bureau, Florian Sengstschmid, said during the Azerbaijan Tourism Summit 2019 held in Baku recently.

Azerbaijan has showcased its tourism potential during the World Travel Market being held in London on November 4-6.

Azerbaijan and the UK have discussed simplification of visa regime and tourism cooperation between the two countries.

Four Azerbaijani tourism companies and a hotel supported by the Azerbaijan Tourism Board participated in the ITB Asia 2019 exhibition in Singapore.

Travel companies and associations should be closely involved in the process of preparing legislative acts and incentive mechanisms in the tourism sector, Chairman of the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Orkhan Mammadov has said, Trend reported.

China will launch another flight to Azerbaijan in 2020, the executive director of Chinese ETI-Holidays travel company, Guo Dongje, has said.