Azerbaijani airports to launch new tourist service system from next month

14:14 - 10.04.2018


April 10, Fineko/abc.az. President Ilham Aliyev assessed the level of tourism development in Azerbaijan at Cabinet’s recent meeting.

"From now on, we should approach this sphere more systematically, not to sit and wait for someone to come to visit us. Security, stability, hospitality, excellent climate, historical monuments, infrastructure, 7 airports, 6 of which are international, wonderful roads and visa facilitation – today citizens of more than 90 countries receive a visa at airports of our country. Now, work on improvement is underway in this area as unfortunately, there were a lot of violations. We cancelled visas as tourists were troubled at airports and were demanded money unreasonably. We've removed this mess. Those who committed this disgrace, these violations, this crime have been brought to trial. Let everyone know that those crimes will not go unpunished. But we must create a system to attract more tourists to our country," President Aliyev said.

According to country’s leader, the new system being created at the domestic airports will be applied starting from next month. The most comfortable conditions should be created for guests at all our border-crossing points, as in some cases visitors are disturbed, detained, and bribes are unreasonably extorted and begged from them, people working at those points disgrace our people, our state.

"I strictly warned the relevant structures and gave a reprimand to them. These violations must be removed. People who harm the image of our country will be punished. Border-crossing checkpoints should be such that the guest who arrived from abroad would not suffer. As for security-related questions, we now have sufficient capacity to protect our own security. But this should not be a reason for creation of queues on the border in order to extort money from someone to pass these queues," President Aliyev said.

 

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