Georgian domestic tourism data: visitor number down 3.3% in 2022
About 1.2 million Georgian resident visitors made 1.36 million visits within the country per month in 2022. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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About 1.2 million Georgian resident visitors made 1.36 million visits within the country per month in 2022, the latest domestic tourism survey published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia showed on Thursday.
The Office said the number of visitors aged 15 and above had decreased by 3.3 percent year-on-year.
Figures also showed last year’s monthly average number of tourist visits by Georgian residents at 641,000, or 3.3 percent less than the figure in 2021.
The majority of the visits came on the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, with an average of 317,000 visits per month, and the western Imereti region, where 230,900 monthly visits were recorded.
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The main purpose of a majority of visits - 50.8 percent - was visiting friends or relatives, Geostat said.
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The monthly average expenditure during 2022 visits equalled ₾248.3 million ($96mln), marking a 9.8 percent increase year-on-year. In average expenditures per visit, the number increased by 13.9 percent, to ₾182.4 ($70.57).
The largest number of visitors Georgia hosted last year came from Russia, followed by Turkey and Armenia, the latest inbound tourism statistics published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia on Tuesday show.
Citizens of over 60 countries including Georgia will be required to apply for receiving authorisation from the European Travel Information and Authorisation System if they want to visit much of Europe starting in November.
Georgia received $3.5 billion from international tourist visits in 2022, a figure that represented a 182.5 percent increase compared to 2021, the National Tourism Administration said on Monday.
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.