"The prices of flights to Azerbaijan are considered as one of the obstacles to tourism."

"The prices of flights to Azerbaijan are considered as one of the obstacles to tourism."

Qazet.az reports that this was stated by the Head of the Department of Tourism Policy and Strategy of the State Tourism Agency, Mohammad Nuriyev, at the "Azerbaijan Tourism Summit" held in Baku.

He spoke about this while commenting on the fact that air tickets from various European cities to neighboring Turkey and Georgia are 3-4 times cheaper than Azerbaijan.

"Such issues are discussed around a topic from the point of view of state policy. The approach in the Socio-Economic Development Strategy is that there is a question of optimizing the activities of state-owned companies. A unified approach is applied not to one state-owned company, but to many state-owned companies. We act as a coordinating body between government agencies and have so far put this issue on the agenda of the government. We hope that significant changes will take place in the tourism sector in the coming years," said the tourism official.