Revenue from international tourism up 45.6% in January-April

Georgia has received $582 million from international tourist visits between January-April, which is 463.1 percent more compared to the same period of last year, the Georgian National Tourism Administration has said. 

Revenues from international tourism have recovered by 68.9 percent compared to the pre-pandemic 2019, said the GNTA.

​​Acting GNTA Head Medea Janiashvili said the dynamics of tourism recovery had increased “significantly” in the four months.

When we talk about the dynamics of tourism recovery, our main goal is to have as high a share of tourists in the total number of international travelers as possible, which would automatically be reflected in revenue [...] We have such a positive result in April that it guarantees us being able not only to keep this rate until the end of the year, but also to increase it further," Janiashvili said.

Other data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia showed Georgia hosted 431,300 international visitors in the first quarter of the year, with the figure being 4.8 times higher compared to the same period of 2021.

• Q1 2022: Georgia hosts 431,300 international visitors

The visitors also accounted for 460,000 tourist visits in the country - 3.9 times higher year-on-year, Geostat said.

[In the figures,] 89.6 percent of the international visitors were only tourists. The share of excursionists amounted to 7.2 percent, while 3.2 percent of visitors were both tourists and same-day visitors," the statistics body added.

The highest number of visitors - 66,800 - was registered from Turkey, amounting to 15.5 percent of the total number and being 126.9 percent higher compared to Q1 of 2021.