Baku, September 28, AZERTAC “From January to August 2026, a total of 432,296 tourists purchased tickets to visit the reserves and museums operated under the State Tourism Agency, including 303,426 foreign and 128,870 domestic visitors. Another 95,260 individuals visited the reserves and museums free of charge,” Murad Aghabayli, Chairman of the Board of the Reserves Management Center under Azerbaijan’s State Tourism Agency, told AZERTAC.He noted that 28,979 visitors purchased tickets to the Mud Volcanoes Tourism Complex in the first eight months of 2026, of whom 26,235 were foreign tourists from more than 150 countries. The largest numbers of visitors came from China, Russia, Türkiye, Israel, India, Poland, Germany, Italy, Bahrain, and the United States.