{"id":253628,"date":"2022-08-19T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/?p=253628"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:40:10","slug":"friday-wrap-up-tourism-movie-award-and-forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-up-tourism-movie-award-and-forest-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Wrap-up: tourism, movie award and forest fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The week of August 15-19 saw data on tourism in Azerbaijan, Hilal Baydarov receives two awards for his movie and forest fires in Dag Bilici.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tourism in the South Caucasus: Azerbaijan is lagging behind <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Tourism Administration of Georgia announced this week that more than two million tourists came to the country between January and July of this year, representing a 47.2% recovery from the pre-pandemic rate. Regarding Armenia, about 770 thousand tourists entered the country in the first seven months of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 638 thousand tourists came to Azerbaijan in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the closure of land borders with Azerbaijan, Russians and Iranians visiting its South Caucasus neighboring countries are giving preference to visiting Georgia and Armenia because of the possibility to travel by land. Both nationalities make up the top-three passports visiting the country, along with Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is interesting that because the land borders are closed, Russian citizens can go to Azerbaijan only by plane, and because the air route is closed, they can go to Georgia only by land.\u00a0Thus, by keeping land borders closed, Azerbaijan loses Russian and Iranian tourists who can come to the country by land, and at the same time, European tourists who go through Georgia&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/qafqaza-gelen-turistler-azerbaycan-reqabete-davam-getirirmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains economist Gubad Ibadoglu<\/a>,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8cb186a4 gb-headline-text\">Azerbaijani movie awarded in Switzerland<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijani director Hilal Baydarov&#8217;s movie &#8220;Sermon to the Fish&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/hilal-bayrarovun-filmi-festivalda-iki-mukafat-qazanib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won two awards<\/a> at the 75th Locarno International Film Festival, in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie is jointly production by Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland and Turkey, and it is one of the 17 screen works selected from among 3500 movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilal Baydarov also participates in the Sarajevo Film Festival held from August 12 to 19.\u00a0The director is one of the three jury members for documentary&#8217;s competition this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f46495fb gb-headline-text\">Forest fires in Northern Azerbaijan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Forest fires are raging in the Northern provinces of the country. Residents of several villages are being evacuated, while wild animals and vegetation suffer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhn.gov.az\/index.php?aze\/news\/xeber\/2022\/8\/18\/45078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The latest information<\/a>\u00a0released by the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) mentions that immediate and urgent measures are being taken to prevent and extinguish the spread of fires.\u00a0Most firefighting operations are carried out in complex mountainous terrain, which is said to be challenging because of the difficult access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/az\/article\/yangin-ehalinin-emlakina-zerer-vurub-ev-heyvanlari-olub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started on August 15<\/a> in Khalfalar village of Shabran region, in an agricultural field.\u00a0After that, the flames quickly spread to other villages of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of August 15-19 saw data on tourism in &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Friday Wrap-up: tourism, movie award and forest fires\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-up-tourism-movie-award-and-forest-fires\/#more-253628\" aria-label=\"Read more about Friday Wrap-up: tourism, movie award and forest fires\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":253681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-news","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friday Wrap-up: tourism, movie award and forest fires - MEYDAN.TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/friday-wrap-up-tourism-movie-award-and-forest-fires\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Wrap-up: tourism, movie award and forest fires - MEYDAN.TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The week of August 15-19 saw data on tourism in ... 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