Tourism administration: 63.7% of pre-pandemic visits restored in October
The statistics show last month Georgia hosted 498,477 international travellers, which is a 125.9 percent year-on-year increase. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge
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The number of international traveller visits to Georgia recovered by 63.7 percent in October compared to the same month of the pre-pandemic 2019, the Georgian national tourism administration said on Thursday.
The statistics show last month Georgia hosted 498,477 international travellers, which is a 125.9 percent year-on-year increase.
Over the same month, 344,595 international tourist type visits were recorded, registering an 82.6 percent increase compared to the same month of 2021 and a 78.5 percent recovery on 2019.
Throughout the first 10 months of 2022 Georgia hosted 4,391,082 international travellers (+188.5% y/y and 54.8% recovery) and 3,048,728 tourists (+137.9% y/y and 68.8% recovery), the GNTA also said.
Tourism authorities of Georgia and Türkiye have held their first working meeting in Istanbul to deepen cooperation in the field of tourism, the ministry of economy of Georgia announced on Tuesday.
Medea Janiashvili, the Acting Head of the Georgian National Tourism Administration, on Thursday responded to a study by Transparency International Georgia, which had noted “significant acceleration” in the rate of visitors to Georgia from Russia in 2022, by saying the number of Russian citizens among visitors had dropped by 52 percent compared to the same period in 2019.
Georgia has received $258 million from international tourist visits in May 2022, which is 250.4 percent more compared to the same month of last year, the Georgian National Tourism Administration said on Friday.
Georgia’s tourism industry has recovered to 70 percent capacity compared to the pre-pandemic period in 2019, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said earlier today, adding the country was experiencing “double-digit” growth in the economy.
TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports in the capital and the Black Sea city, on Friday said passenger traffic had increased at both venues compared to 2021.
Forty-one airline companies will carry out flights between Georgia and 61 destinations in 31 countries during the winter season, the Georgian civil aviation agency announced on Wednesday after officially approving the schedule for the period.
Holiday, leisure and recreation are the most common purposes for international travellers who pick Georgia as their travel destination, the national statistics office has revealed.
After the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia was able to recover its tourism income by 100 percent and as a result, a $3 billion surpass in the sector is expected, which will have a “direct” impact on job creation and improvement of the well-being of citizens, the Georgian deputy economy minister Mariam Kvrivishvili said on Thursday in her address at the 117th session of the executive council of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
Passenger flow at Tbilisi International Airport recovered by 108 percent in November 2022 compared to pre-pandemic 2019 figures, TAV Georgia, the company operating two major airports in the country, said on Monday.
Georgia hosted 4,862,247 international travellers in the first 11 months of 2022, a 185.5 percent increase year-on-year and a 55.9 percent recovery from the pre-pandemic 2019, the Georgian National Tourism Administration announced on Tuesday.
Georgia’s revenues from tourism reached $3.2 billion between January-November, a 103.5 percent recovery from the same period of the pre-pandemic 2019 and a 182.4 percent increase over the same period of 2021, the National Tourism Administration said on Friday.