Editor of Portuguese magazine visits Georgia on press trip
Leonídio Paulo Ferreira will produce several articles for the publication about Georgia and its tourism potential, as well as the culture, wine, cuisine, nature and Black Sea resorts of the country. Photo: GNTA
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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.
Ferreira will produce several articles for the publication about Georgia and its tourism potential, as well as the culture, wine, cuisine, nature and Black Sea resorts of the country, the GNTA said.
Leonídio Paulo Ferreira at Wine Museum. Photo: GNTA
The visiting editor has already been hosted in the capital city of Tbilisi, in a trip to the Wine Museum. He also visited the historical capital of Mtskheta near Tbilisi, the cave town of Uplistsikhe in central Georgia and the eastern winemaking region of Kakheti.
The GNTA said the trip would continue in the Tetra Cave in the western Tskaltubo municipality, with visits to the Paliastomi Lake and the Black Sea city of Batumi also planned.
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.
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.
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.
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.