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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.77, # 1, 2020, pp. 51-64

Figure 1: The number of employed population by the type of economic activity

6000 2005
The number of people employed in the economoc sphere, thousands 2000 2010
4000

0
2015
2016

Years 2017

Source: The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Tourism in
Azerbaijan, 2019:12-20

The statistic dates show that in 2017 the participating in product development in
entrepreneurial farms the number of family members was 3665, this indicator
respectively decreased by 2,58 times compared to 2013, compared to 2014 decreased by
1,80 times, compared to 2015 decreased by 1,63 times, and decreased by 1,55 times
compared to 2016. There has also been a decline in the number of employees involved
outside to the mentioned farms. So that there was a decline in 2017 compared to 2013
40, 3%; 41,8% compared to 2014; 41,5% compared to 2015 and 28% compared to
2016. The number of individual peasant farms according to the information available at
the beginning of 2018 was 955 units and there was approximately a 6 % decrease in the
number of people engaged in rural tourism organization compared to 2016.

It is advisable to consider the tourism in a relatively balanced approach lately. The
main purpose of this approach is that in the tourism industry urbanism loading
weakens and the tourism product being diversification enhances the purchasing
power of tourists regardless of the season allow the country enables expansion of
tourism revenues. In order to achieve these goals setting out in the tourism industry
in our country, the expansion of rural tourism is considered to be the main method.
For this purpose, the state has recently been doing some purposefully work and here
the main direction is considered the impact of the revival of socio-economic revival
of rural areas of the country.

At present, organization of rural tourism in our country reflects low level of
competitively because this activity area faces a number of challenges and to
implement their solution is impossible without the interference of state bodies and
structures. The reason is that the infrastructure in the village is not at the required
level. So that, when the urban residents move to rural areas they are not ready to
change their life form. The limited number of stores, kindergartens, schools and
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