National Tourism Administration promotes Georgia’s visitor potential at Dubai exhibition
The tourism body said representatives of the country’s tourist sector had also met those from Skyscanner, a major international booking platform, to discuss development of “coordinated marketing efforts”. Photo: Tourism Administration
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The Georgian National Tourism Administration and 52 domestic tourist businesses are promoting visitor sights and destinations of Georgia at the Arabian Travel Market, a trade exhibition running between Monday and Wednesday in Dubai.
As part of the exhibition, which hosts 2,000 businesses from more than 150 countries, Maia Omiadze, the Head of the GNTA, met with representatives of tourist and airline companies, international media and travel platforms based in Gulf countries.
Omiadze introduced them to the “large-scale” events planned in the country for the summer season, including artist performances for Starring Georgia - a programme involving a series of shows with international artists to promote Georgia’s tourism sector, economy and culture.
In her comments, Omiadze said the meetings with the marketing and travel firms were “interesting”, adding the programme for artist performances had generated “a lot of interest”.
The tourism body said representatives of the country’s tourist sector had also met those from Skyscanner, a major international booking platform, to discuss development of “coordinated marketing efforts”.
“We had a very interesting meeting with the representatives of Georgia. We are eager to launch a combined marketing initiative with Skyscanner to promote Georgia as a tourism destination”, the company said in comments.
Georgian private sector officials also met with potential partners interested in the country's mining, marine and health resort industries to explore cooperation and joint travel arrangements.
Permanent Representatives of Benin, Comoros, Congo, Dominican Republic, Libya and Saint Lucia to the United Nations got acquainted with Georgia’s tourism potential with David Bakradze, the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN, the Georgian National Tourism Administration said on Tuesday.
The Georgian National Tourism Administration and 52 travel companies and hotels from the country are promoting visitor sights and tourist potential of Georgia at the Arabian Travel Market, a trade exhibition hosted in Dubai between Monday and Wednesday.
Hungarian bloggers, influencers and photographers have been hosted in cities of Georgia’s west to explore the domestic tourist potential before publishing impressions to their readers and followers, the Georgian National Tourism Administration said on Monday.
Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on Tuesday said Starring Georgia, a planned summer series of music performances by popular global artists in the country, would ensure an “effect” of ₾100 million ($39.92mln) on the domestic economy and promote the domestic tourist potential.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday announced a series of music performances by popular international artists to promote tourist potential of the country this August, in a Government programme launched for the purpose.
Globally popular musical artists, from the French multi-instrumentalist performer FKJ to house and techno mainstay Damian Lazarus and American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, will host music enthusiasts in Georgia’s Black Sea town of Shekvetili and other locations to promote the country’s potential in tourism, economy and culture.
Tourism attractions of Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara were promoted at the Bergamo International Rural Tourism Exhibition in Italy between March 31-April 2, the region’s Tourism Department announced on Thursday.
The Georgian National Tourism Administration is running promotional campaigns of the country’s visitor attractions in five German cities with a bid to increase tourist flows from Germany, the body announced on Wednesday.
The Georgian National Tourism Administration on Thursday featured in ITB Berlin Convention, a major international tourism trade fair, to promote the country’s potential to international tourist markets and plan marketing campaigns.