Journalists from France, Türkiye, India, Korea, Egypt on press trip to Georgia
The group of international travel reporters were hosted in the Old Town part of capital Tbilisi and tasted the country’s cuisine, while today they will attend the Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival hosted in the north-western highland region of Svaneti this week. Photo: GNTA
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Journalists from France, Türkiye, India, Korea and Egypt are visiting Georgia to explore the country's tourism potential as part of a press-tour organised by the Georgian National Tourism Administration, the national body announced on Wednesday.
The group of international travel reporters were hosted in the Old Town part of capital Tbilisi and tasted the country’s cuisine, while today they will attend the Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival hosted in the north-western highland region of Svaneti this week.
Later during their trip the journalists will also visit the western Imereti region of the country.
The Administration said the visiting reporters would prepare articles for “highly rated publications” with “tens of millions of readers” in France, Türkiye, India, Korea and Egypt about the country’s visitor potential and the Festival.
Georgia’s revenues from tourism reached $476 million in July, a 20 percent increase from the same month of the pre-pandemic 2019 and a roughly 130 percent increase from July 2021, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said at today's Government meeting.
The number of arrivals of international non-resident travellers in Georgia equalled 1.04 million in the second quarter of this year, marking a 198.7 increase compared to the same period of 2021, the latest data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia shows.
Georgia’s three international airports served 1,716,718 passengers between January-June, marking a 189 percent increase in comparison to the same period of the pandemic-hit 2020, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency has said.
Georgia hosted 445,894 international travellers in June, posting a 51 percent recovery from the pre-pandemic 2019 figure and an increase of 185.5 percent year-on-year, the Georgian National Tourism Administration announced on Wednesday.
Tbilisi International Airport in the Georgian capital served 1,515,988 passengers in the first seven months of 2022, while the number stood at 313,036 for Batumi International Airport in the country's Black Sea city, TAV Georgia, the operator of the two facilities, announced on Wednesday.
Leonídio Paulo Ferreira, one of the editors of the popular Portuguese magazine Diario de Noticias, is visiting Georgia as part of a press tour organised by the Georgian National Tourism Administration, the state body announced on Wednesday.
Two hundred travel bloggers and influencers from the United Arab Emirates, followed and read by around 30 million subscribers, have boarded a flight to an undisclosed destination in the western Georgia’s Imereti region to spend the weekend before sharing their impressions on social media, as part of a campaign my Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air.
Levan Davitashvili, the Georgian Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and Zurab Pololikashvili, the Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, have praised the dynamics of the recovery of the Georgian tourism sector to the pre-pandemic period, noting tourism income of the country as the highest in the South Caucasus region, the Georgian Economy Ministry said on Tuesday.
The Georgian National Tourism Administration on Saturday announced a partnership with Skyscanner, one of the world's largest travel platforms, to attract more tourists from Germany, Poland, and the United Arab Emirates.