A million visitors embrace Georgia this year

Georgia is fast becoming a tourism destination by guests from all over the globe, with latest figures revealing more than a million international visitors spent time in Georgia this year.

Georgia’s unique culture, traditions and landscape was experienced by 1,006,267 people in the first three months of this year. This was 7.6 % higher than the same period last year.

In January, 319,499 visitors spent time in Georgia and in February this number slightly dropped to 294,043 international guests.

Latest figures from the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed a boost in March, when 392,725 people crossed Georgian borders. This was an 8% increase on March 2013.

Last month, the highest number of visitors came from Turkey, followed by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine and Iran.

The Ministry said data showed a positive trend where more visitors from European Union countries continued to visit Georgia.

The number of visitors from Italy, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Middle East, Israel, Belarus and Moldova also increased year on year.