February 2018: Georgia hosts 440,806 international travellers
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A total of 440,806 international travellers visited Georgia in February 2018 of which 177,845 were tourists, says the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Month-on-month, the number of international travellers (tourists, transit, other) increased by 19.8 percent, while the number of tourists (individuals that spend more than 24 hours in the country) increased by 27.1 percent.
The countries from where the largest number of visitors came to Georgia in January 2018 were:
- Azerbaijan – 2.2 percent decrease
- Armenia – 27.1 percent increase
- Turkey – 28.1 percent increase
- Russia – 24.2 percent increase
- Iran – 130.6 percent increase
From European Union countries:
- United Kingdom – 49 percent increase
- Lithuania – 36 percent increase
- France – 31 percent increase
- Germany – 21 percent increase
The countries with the most significant increase were:
- Kuwait – 134 percent increase
- Iran – 131 percent
- China – 83 percent increase
- Israel – 73 percent increase
- India – 37 percent increase
In the first two months of 2018, Georgia hosted 885,047 international visitors (17.2 percent increase) and 367,321 tourists (24.9 percent increase).
The number of international travellers visiting Georgia is increasing year-on-year, show the latest data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration, which said Georgia hosted 444,241 international visitors in January 2018.
A record number of international visitors visited Georgia in 2017, says head of the Georgian National Tourism Administration Giorgi Chogovadze. Georgia hosted 7,554,936 international visitors (tourists, transit, other), which was a 18.8 percent increase year-on-year (y/y). As for tourists alone, last year Georgia hosted 3,478,932 tourists* (+27.9 percent).
Almost seven million international travellers visited Georgia between January-November of which over three million were tourists, says the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Georgia hosted more than 6.4 million international travelers during the first 10 months of 2017, says the head of the National Tourism Administration. A total of 6,430,824 international visitors entered Georgia in January-October of this year, which is 18.8 percent more than in the same time period of last year.
Over 8 million international visitors will arrive in Georgia in 2018, believes Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili. While summing up the results of 2017 at the newly opened Moxy Hotel in Tbilisi, the PM stated that tourism has become an important locomotive of the country's economy.
Georgia is currently experiencing a building boom of new hotels and guesthouses, which is providing new beds for the growing number of tourists and guests.
A total of 578,514 international travellers visited Georgia in March 2018 of which 292,017 were tourists, says the Georgian National Tourism Administration. Year-on-year, the number of international travellers increased by 13.2 percent, while the number of tourists increased by 33 percent.
The number of international travellers visiting Georgia is increasing year-on-year, show the latest data from the Georgian National Tourism Administration.