November 2022: Tbilisi airport passenger traffic recovers by 108% on pre-pandemic figures
Tbilisi International Airport served 232,092 passengers in November, a 42 percent increase year-on-year. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge
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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.
In further details, the company said the airport had served 232,092 passengers in November, a 42 percent increase year-on-year.
Batumi International Airport in the country’s western Adjara region, also operated by TAV Georgia, served 34,153 passengers last month, marking a 15 percent increase compared to 2021 and a 30 percent increase on 2019 data.
Other data published by the Georgian National Tourism Administration shows Georgia hosted 498,477 international travellers in October, a 125.9 percent year-on-year increase.
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 GNTA also said.
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.
Georgia received $2,854,529,093 from international tourism between January and October of this year, with the figure surpassing pre-pandemic numbers from 2019 and hitting record-high markers this year, the Georgian national tourism administration announced on Thursday.
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.
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.
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.