Black Sea city of Batumi wins world's leading emerging tourism destination at World Travel Awards
Last month, the World Travel Awards named Batumi as Europe’s leading emerging tourism destination at the award ceremony in Mallorca, with Tornike Rijvadze, the chairman of the autonomous republic of Adjara, announcing that Batumi was officially named as a host city of the 2023 awards event. Photo: Adjara tourism department/Facebook
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The Black Sea city of Batumi on Saturday won the award of the world’s leading emerging tourism destination 2022 at the 29th World Travel Awards, in Oman’s capital of Muscat.
The Adjara tourism department said that the city had won the award among tourist destinations such as France, Japan, Colombia and Mexico, as well as Laos, Uruguay, Bulgaria and Northern Ireland.
Last month, the World Travel Awards named Batumi as Europe’s leading emerging tourism destination at the award ceremony in Mallorca, with Tornike Rijvadze, the chairman of the autonomous republic of Adjara, announcing that Batumi was officially named as a host city of the 2023 awards event.
Photo: Adjara tourism department
The event has been held since 1993, with hundreds of nominations and thousands of nominees that are divided into different categories according to continents and countries, among them are leading hotels, travel agencies, tourist attractions, destinations, tour operators, as well as sea, road, air transport companies, etc.
Georgian deputy economy minister Mariam Kvrivishvili on Wednesday called the naming of Georgia as the most desirable emerging destination 2022 by the British leading travel magazine Wanderlust - a great recognition.
Wanderlust, a leading travel magazine in the United Kingdom, has named Georgia its most desirable emerging destination of this year.
The Black Sea city of Batumi on Saturday won the award of Europe’s leading emerging tourism destination, the so-called tourism "Oscar", at the 29th World Travel Awards, in Mallorca.
Popular British travel magazine Wanderlust published an article about Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi, naming seven reasons for travelling to the city and “encouraging” millions of readers to visit Batumi, the Adjara tourism department said on Wednesday.
The budget of Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara has tripled over the past 10 years and crossed the ₾50 billion ($18.08bln) threshold, Tornike Rizhvadze, the head of the regional government, revealed on Tuesday.
Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara and the city of Batumi on Friday won the award of Europe's Leading All-Season Destination 2023 at the so-called tourism “Oscar” - the World Travel Awards, hosted in Batumi for the first time.