Foreign visitors arriving in, leaving Georgia to receive wine as gift
The new marketing campaign will be carried out this summer only at Tbilisi International Airport and at the Larsi border checkpoint at Georgia-Russia border. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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All foreign visitors arriving in or leaving Georgia will receive a bottle of Georgian wine as a gift, announces the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
The new marketing campaign will be carried out this summer only at Tbilisi International Airport and at the Larsi border checkpoint at Georgia-Russia border.
A bottle of red wine of Saperavi will be offered to each foreign visitor immediately after they pass through passport control.
The similar campaign was carried out in 2015 as well.
Photo showing passengers of Dortmund-Kutaisi flight recieveing gifts at Kutaisi airport. Photo: Kutaisi Airport.
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Georgian authorities are claiming that overall the country is a safe destination for travellers from any country, including Russia. Accent on Russian tourists was made after the warnings for them from Russian authorities that travelling to Georgia is no longer safe for them.
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