Ski season launches early, breaks 20 year record
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Get out your jackets and put on your gloves because winter is coming early to Georgia.
Snowboarders, skiers and winter enthusiasts across Georgia are celebrating after the country’s winter resorts announced the earliest winter season start in the last 20 years.
The winter season will open on December 5 at Goderdzi - the newest of Georgia’s four winter resorts on the slopes of the mountainous Adjara region.
Newly installed cableway in Goderdzi. Photo by the Mountain Resorts Development Company of Georgia.
This will be followed by the opening of Bakuriani and Gudauri ski fields in the country’s east on December 13.
Officials said these dates would mark the earliest beginning of a ski season in the past two decades in Georgia.
Picking the right place for a winter break in Georgia can be puzzling as there are four ski destinations to choose from – Gudauri, Bakuriani, Mestia (Svaneti) and Goderdzi (Adjara). Photo by N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge
The early start of the winter season was made possible by the recent introduction of artificial snow machines at several resorts. The machines will ensure there will be a decent snow base on the ski tracks from the end of November, said an industry expert.
Meanwhile several infrastructural changes will please guests at the Georgian winter resorts this year.
A historic Kokhta cableway will be brought back to life in Bakuriani this winter.
"This will be exciting for Bakuriani as the historic cableway will be reopened,” head of the Mountain Resorts Development Company Sandro Onofrishvili told commersant.ge.
He added the first-ever cinema and several new restaurants would also open in Bakuriani.
As for Gudauri, Onofrishvili said world leading companies were working together with Georgia’s Economy Ministry to create a Gudauri Development Plan by April 2016; this plan would transform Gudauri into a European-standard winter resort in the coming years.
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Snowboarders, skiers and winter enthusiasts across Georgia are celebrating the opening of Goderdzi today - the newest of Georgia’s four winter resorts on the slopes of the mountainous Adjara region.
Snowboarders, skiers and winter enthusiasts across Georgia are invited to hit the slopes in Georgia’s winter resorts Gudauri and Bakuriani.
Bakuriani, Georgia’s one of the leading ski resorts, is today celebrating the opening of a renewed ski lift station on Mount Kokhta. The Kokhta cableway was brought back to life after an eight-year pause.
Ski resort will host 7,000 tourists simultaneously
Goderdzi, the newest of Georgia’s four winter resorts on the slopes of the mountainous Adjara region, will soon be developed from a rural mountain village into a bustling, modern winter resort hosting thousands of visitors.
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