DAVOS, Switzerland, January 21. This year a
World Cup event will be held in Shahdag. Our relationship with the
International Ski Federation has started, and it is already
included in the calendar, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
as he responded to questions from business representatives from
various countries during an event titled “Azerbaijan Executive
Breakfast,” held as part of the annual meeting of the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Trend's special correspondent reports.
Noting that every year either a World Cup or a European
Championship will be held in Azerbaijan, the head of state said:
“This will, to a certain degree, balance our summer event, which is
Formula One, which for more than 10 years has already attracted a
lot of interest and played a very important role in the growing
number of tourists. After the first Formula One, we had 20 percent
growth.”
