Georgia launches campaign in 14 countries to attract summer tourism

In the first 10 months of the year Georgia hosted 5,406,188 visitors. Photo by N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
Agenda.ge, 27 Mar 2017 - 15:44, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgia is getting ready for the summer tourism season, starting marketing campaigns in 14 targeted markets in a bid to attract more tourists.

Between March 25 – June 30 the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA) will launch special online campaigns and TV advertisements in order to promote Georgia in the following 14 countries:

  1. Russia
  2. United Arab Emirates
  3. Germany
  4. Italy
  5. Israel
  6. Ukraine
  7. Poland
  8. Belarus
  9. Azerbaijan
  10. Kazakhstan
  11. Turkey
  12. Armenia
  13. Lithuania
  14. Latvia

Internet marketing campaigns will be launched via Facebook, Google, Instagram, Youtube, Vkontakte, Mail.ru, Yandex and Odnoklassniki.ru, while TV advertisements will be aired in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus.

A total of 3,498,336 GEL (about $1.43m/€1.31m*) will be spent on internet campaigns and 4,091,500 (about $1.67m/€1.31m*) – for TV advertisements.

Google participated in the planning sessions of the GNTA to build marketing campaigns for this year’s tourism season.

*Currency conversions reflect National Bank of Georgia values as of today.