August 2021: number of international visits up 510% in Georgia
In July 2021 Georgia received $205.3 million. In total in the first seven months of 2021 Georgia received $505.1 million from international tourism. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia hosted 266,544 visitors in August 2021 which is a 510% increase compared to the same month of 2020, however it is still 75% less compared to August 2019, says the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Accordingly, the number of visitors to Georgia in August was restored by only 24.5% of the 2019 figure", says the administration.
The top 10 countries from where visitors came in August were:
- Russia - 39,909 visitors (+809%)
- Turkey - 34,847 visitors (+ 114%)
- Ukraine - 29,372 visitors (+2,849%)
- Georgia (non-residents) - 23,117 visitors (+390%)
- Armenia - 22,733 visitors (+161%)
- Saudi Arabia - 16,436 visitors (+ 16,435%)
- Belarus - 13,494 visitors (+5,678%)
- Kazakhstan - 12,221 visitors (+2,489%)
- Azerbaijan - 11,181 visitors (+ 198%)
- Poland - 6,954 visitors (+12,100%)
In July 2021 Georgia received $205.3 million. In total in the first seven months of 2021 Georgia received $505.1 million from international tourism.
In Georgia 1,054 hotels were operating in 2020 featuring 26,897 rooms in total, official statistics from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) show. Geostat says that the total number of rooms decreased by 23.4% year-on-year.
Israeli tourists will be able to visit Georgia again starting September 1, but will be subjected to self-isolation or quarantine upon their return to their home country following the decision of the Israeli government to remove Georgia from the red list and place it on the orange country list.
Georgian Prime Minister and Chairman of the government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara Tornike Rizhvadze have announced five new tourism projects in Shuakhevi municipality, Adjara, with a total investment value of about 30 million GEL. Garibashvili said that implementing tourism projects of this type is 'vital for reviving the economy and attracting more tourists'.
A total of 695,000 international visits have been carried out to Georgia in January-July 2021 which is a 45.5% decrease compared to the same period of last year, and 83% decrease compared to January-July 2019, announces the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Georgia has received $703.9 million from international tourism in January-August 2021, which is 45.6% more compared to the same period of last year, says the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). In August alone Georgia received $198.8 million, which is an increase of 1,243% compared to 2020 and a decrease of 51.8% compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019.
A total of 1,881,271 international travellers visited Georgia in 2021, an increase of 7.7% compared to 2020, the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA) reports.
Visits by international travelers to Georgia reached the figure of 199,393 in January, making a 38 percent increase compared to the same month in 2019, and a 471 percent growth compared to January 2021, the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA) said earlier on Thursday.