Arab tourism in Azerbaijan has its own peculiarity, which is not discussed in the government, but the problem is so obvious that an unending discussion platform - "Arabs in Baku brothels" - has opened in the forum www.
Officially there are no brothels in Azerbaijan, but in Baku there are so many so-called massage salons in the cellars of old multi-storey apartment houses, and so few of Baku residents who received a medical massage there, that the true meaning of these salons is understandable.
Prostitutes trade quite openly also in nightclubs, and the most convenient ones for tourists come to hotels. What are groups of Arab men looking for on the central Nizami Torgovaya Street and the neighboring streets late at night and what are they talking about with local women coming up to them? The tourism of the Arabs to Azerbaijan took a specific touch. Autumn has come, but their number does not become less. Apparently, they are not going to leave.
Either they do not have children going to school, or they do not have to work themselves," a Baku resident asks. And very often I notice that girls try to pick up Arabs," another Baku resident writes. In government reports on the growth of tourism it is not spoken about the "specific feature", reporting on US dollars, which the average Arab leaves in Azerbaijan.
For 11 months of , Azerbaijan was visited by more than 87, Arabs from the UAE, which is the fifth indicator after Russian, Georgian, Iranian and Turkish tourists. This year, Iraqis joined the visitors from the Emirates.
