Passenger traffic up 121% y/y at Tbilisi Airport, 35.37% at Batumi Airport
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. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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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.
In the reporting period, the number of passengers increased by 121.56 percent year-on-year for Tbilisi Airport, while the airport in Batumi saw a 35.37 percent increase in its passenger flow, the company said.
Thirty-five airlines are operating flights from Tbilisi International Airport to 38 destinations, while 21 airlines are connecting passengers between Batumi and 17 destinations during the current summer season.
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.
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.
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.
Georgian tourism sector and the country’s economy are “resistant to challenges”, and have “one of the fastest” recovery rates in the region, Irakli Nadareishvili, the Deputy Minister of Economy said on Saturday at the opening ceremony of a 4-star hotel in the centre of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
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.
Passenger flow at Tbilisi International Airport recovered by 92 percent compared to the pre-pandemic 2019 figure in August, TAV Georgia, the company operating two major airports in the country, said on Monday.
Air Moldova airline is set to launch direct flights between Tbilisi and Chișinău next month, TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports in the country, said on Tuesday.
Cooperation prospects and the growing dynamics of tourism recovery in Georgia were discussed on Monday in a meeting between Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili and Serkan Kaptan, the president of TAV Airports, the company managing two of the largest airports in the country.