Summer season opens in mountainous Goderdzi resort
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The summer season is opening in Georgia's mountainous Goderdzi resort, transforming the winter wonderland into a hot summer destination.
Goderdzi ski resort is situated on a north-facing plateau, only a two-hour drive from the most popular seaside resort town of Batumi in western Georgia. It is a four-season mountain resort give both its location and infrastructure.
At an elevation of 2,000 metres, the Goderdzi mountains are snow-covered by an average 6-7m of snow between November and April.
Goderdzi ski resort opened in 2015, while its development started in 2011.
There are seven guesthouses, one hotel and an administrative building in Goderdzi.
Georgia’s mountain resorts are becoming popular tourist spots, hosting 514,874 visitors during the winter season in 2017-2018, which is a 25 percent year-on-year (y/y) increase. The number of tourists in Georgia’s mountain resorts of Gudauri, Bakuriani, Goderdzi and Svaneti has increased by 491 percent since 2012.
Tourists will have the opportunity to enjoy a new route in mountainous Adjara, in the country’s west, starting from next year.
Georgia’s winter wonderlands – Gudauri, Bakuriani, Svaneti, and Goderdzi - hosted 73,353 visitors this summer season, which is 17 percent growth year-on-year.
Four new hotels will be built in Goderdzi, the newest of Georgia's four winter resorts on the slopes of the mountainous Adjara region.
The Russian government has revealed plans to set up new resorts on the country’s border with Georgia in a bid to divert holiday-goers away from Georgian locations.