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

number of tourists arriving in the republic in comparison with 2005 increased 2,0
times in 2018, and the number of workers involved in tourism increased 1,82 times
which is associated with the state policy to increase the level of employment (Figure
2). Such approaches are already being applied in the public administration system of
Azerbaijan at the level of the Absheron, Ganja-Kazakh, Astara-Lenkoran and Sheki-
Zakatalinsky economic zones and mountain regions of the republic.

Figure 2: Graph of the dynamics of the activities of travel agencies

50000

40000
The cost of vouchers sold
İndicators 30000 in Azerbaijan, thousand
to foreigners for traveling
manats
20000
Total income of travel
10000
agencies and tour
0 operators, thousand
2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 manats
Years

Source: The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Tourism in
Azerbaijan, 2019: 36-52

It is necessary to organize a clear relationship between the tourism market
participants and related industries, guided by the ideas of tourism development in the
above regions of the country as one of the activities with the maximum synergistic
effect. This will make it possible to work in separate departments as a whole in order
to comply with the unity of technology of the process of servicing tourists. From the
analysis of the purpose of the visit of tourists to Azerbaijan in 2018, it is clear that
the share of vacationing tourists is 31%, the share for the purpose of professional
business is 30%, the share of recreational, religious, and other purposes of tourists is
28% (Figure 3). The share of tourist trips compared to 2000 in Azerbaijan in 2018
increased by 2159,3 thousand people and amounted to 2840,9 thousand people.

In order for the rapid development of rural tourism in Azerbaijan it is considered
appropriate granting small loans for the repairing the kitchens properly and for the
sanitary nodes at homes. Granting the small loans to the rural homes, performing
repair and restoration work in a short time in the villages, preparing tourism routes,
awareness- raising activities about the rural tourism among the rural population and
other such activities have a major importance for the development of rural tourism.

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