Over one million international travellers (1,039,027) visited Georgia in July 2018 of which 564,977 were tourists, says the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Year-on-year, the number of international travellers (tourists, transit, other) increased by 10.5 percent, while the number of tourists (individuals that spend more than 24 hours in the country) increased by 15 percent.
The countries from where the largest number of visitors came to Georgia in July 2018 were:
From European Union countries:
The countries with the most significant increase were:
In the first seven months of 2018, Georgia hosted 4,600,988 international visitors (12.9 percent increase) and 2,498,751tourists (21 percent increase).
How did Georgia benefit from more visitors?
A total of $1.66 billion was generated from international tourism in Georgia in January-June2018, which was $305 million more compared to the same period of 2017.
In the first quarter of 2018 international tourism revenue reached $551 million.
Meanwhile, in 2017 international tourism revenue reached $2.7billion, which was 594 million more compared to 2016.
In 2017 the share of tourism in the gross domestic product was 6.9percent - a 13 percent year-on-year increase.