32% more tourists visit Georgia in January 2017
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Georgia welcomed 387,070 international travellers in January of 2017, show the latest data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).
While some travellers visited Georgia while in transit to a second destination, the number of travellers spending more than 24 hours in January of 2017 in compared to the previous year rose by 32.4 percent. In January of 2016, only 154,083 travellers visited Georgia.
The highest number of visitors who came to Georgia in January 2017 were from:
- Azerbaijan – 7.1 percent increase
- Turkey – 0.8 percent decrease
- Armenia – 31.4 percent increase
- Russia – 40.3 percent increase
- Ukraine – 28.2 percent increase
A positive trend was also maintained by visitors from the European Union:
- Lithuania - 47 percent increase
- Bulgaria - 32 percent increase
- Germany - 32 percent increase
- Poland - 25 percent increase
- United Kingdom - 23 percent increase
Exceptional growth in visitor numbers was recorded from the following countries:
- Iran - 617 percent increase
- Uzbek - 231 percent increase
- India - 158 percent increase
- Israel - 83 percent increase
- China - 78 percent increase
- Kazakhstan - 32 percent increase
- Belarus - 25 percent increase
Over six million international travellers have visited Georgia in 2016 – a 7.6 percent increase year-on-year. More specifically, 6,350,825 international travellers (tourists, transit, other) visited Georgia last year.
Over five million foreign guests have enjoyed the sights and sounds Georgia has to offer this year.
Tourism is growing in Georgia and the country is reaping the benefits of billions of dollars coming into the local economy from international tourism.
More and more international tourists are coming to Georgia, and already this year more than four million foreign guests have enjoyed the sights and sounds Georgia has to offer.
Georgia’s attractiveness as a tourist destination is increasing, suggest data from January and February of this year.
The number of international visitors coming to Georgia is increasing show data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).
Georgia hosted 510,594 international travellers in April 2017, which was 10.2 percent increase compared to the same month of 2016, show data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).
Georgia hosted 552,958 international travellers in May 2017, which was 5.7 percent increase compared to the same month of 2016, show data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).