Gudauri ski resort celebrates 30th anniversary, snow season opens
The resort meets visitors with six new ski lifts this year. Photo: Mountain Resorts of Georgia
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The snow season has opened in Gudauri today while the resort also celebrates its 30th anniversary since being declared a mountainous resort.
Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze said the government wants to transform Gudauri into a world renowned resort soon and promised tourists that this season will be ‘unforgettable’.
The resort meets visitors with six new ski lifts this year. Three of them are on the Gudauri-Kobi part.
“This is very important that Gudauri and Stepantsminda will be unified in one cluster. This allows us to increase turnout four times as we have now. Consequently, tourists will be offered more convenient environment as they avoid the rows which had been disturbing during past years,” PM Bakhtadze said while attending the winter season opening ceremony in Gudauri today.
Furthermore, building of the water reservoir is also being finished in the resort and artificial snow making systems are developed to be used upon need.
As for the security measures, 82 new equipped patrol officers will be operating in Gudauri, Bakuriani and other ski resorts of Western Georgia this year.
Georgia’s iconic winter resorts - Gudauri, Bakuriani, Svaneti and Goderdzi - are inviting guests to enjoy an unforgettable winter adventure this weekend when the snow season officially opens.
Georgia’s mountain resorts are becoming popular tourist spots, hosting 514,874 visitors during the winter season in 2017-2018, which is a 25 percent year-on-year (y/y) increase. The number of tourists in Georgia’s mountain resorts of Gudauri, Bakuriani, Goderdzi and Svaneti has increased by 491 percent since 2012.
The world-famous business media outlet Bloomberg lists Georgia among five great European destinations that combine both culture and skiing.
The winter season will open this weekend in Georgia’s highland region of Svaneti and in its central town of Mestia, so get out your jackets, put on your gloves and get out there to experience an unforgettable winter adventure.
The Russian government has revealed plans to set up new resorts on the country’s border with Georgia in a bid to divert holiday-goers away from Georgian locations.
The government of Georgia continues to develop alpine sports amongst local populations in Georgia’s highland region of Svaneti.
The new and longest cable car will open on December 29 to link Georgia’s Stepantsminda region to Gudauri and take passengers from Kobi to Gudauri in just 15 minutes.
Passenger cars are now allowed on the Gudauri-Kobi section of the road to the Russian border as a result of snow clearing work which has been carried out since morning.