On paper, Azerbaijan should be a tourism success story. She wants more tourists, and quickly. A new state program aims to lift annual arrivals to between five and six million within a few years, roughly double today’s level. As Baku prepares a new tourism program with ambitious numerical targets, the gap between aspiration and performance has become harder to ignore. Ambitions are optimistic and perhaps plausible, but what were the problems before, and what should be done to see a rise in stagnant numbers?
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