Domestic tourism data: number of domestic visitors up 23.4% in Georgia

About 1.09 million Georgian resident visitors aged 15 years or more made 1. 23 million visits within Georgia per month in the first quarter of 2021, show the latest data published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). 

Geostat said that the number of visitors increased by 23.4% year-on-year.

In the same the monthly average number of tourists visits of Georgian residents amounted to 554,000, which is 28.8% higher than the indicator of the same period of the previous year. 

The majority of the visits comes on the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi (average 262,000 visits per month) and Imereti region (210,000 visits per month).

The top reasons for internal travel were:

• Visiting friends/relatives – 47.1%
• Visiting another property [summer cottage, house, etc.] – 14.4%
• Shopping – 14%
• Health and medical care – 10.2%
• Holiday/leisure – 5.3%
• Business or professional – 5.3%
• Religion/pilgrimage – 1.8%
• Education/trainings – 0.1%

People aged 31-50 were amongst the most avid domestic travellers (39%). 50.9% of visits were made by women, says Geostat.