Berlin Mayor: “I want Georgians to feel at home in Berlin”
Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey on Monday welcomed a Georgian delegation and the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to the launch of ITB. Photo: PM's press office
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Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey on Monday welcomed a Georgian delegation and the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to the launch of ITB, a major international tourism fair celebrating Georgia as its Host Country, and expressed a “great desire” to make “Georgians feel at home in Berlin”.
The Georgian Government Administration cited Giffey as saying she was glad to see Georgia as assume the status for the international event.
Georgia and Berlin have many similarities and I want to say that we have a very long and important history of relations. Georgia was a special guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018 and a lot was done in this direction. Now I have the opportunity to get to know this wonderful country once again”, Giffey said.
This is @ITB_Berlin - the world's leading travel trade fair. #ITBBerlin is OPEN FOR CHANGE and it's our pleasure to welcome Prime Minister @GharibashviliGe ???????? , @BMWK Robert Habeck, @RegBerlin @FranziskaGiffey, Jessica Simpson @WTTC and Dirk Hoffmann, #MesseBerlin pic.twitter.com/nnyMmyQYi3
— Messe Berlin (@MesseBerlin) March 6, 2023
Giffey featured in the fair’s official opening ceremony on Monday night, which also involved Garibashvili, Robert Habeck, the German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Dirk Hoffmann, the Managing Director of Messe Berlin fairgrounds.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday highlighted the long-running tradition of winemaking on the territory of Georgia in his address at the formal launch of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair showcasing Georgia as the Host Country in the German capital.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday told the audience of the opening event of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair featuring Georgia as the Host Country, that the country’s citizens were “directing all their efforts to the objective of becoming hosts in Europe”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday highlighted Georgia as a historical “epicentre of many civilisations”, a “target of great empires” and “subject of disputes” between them “over millennia”, in his comments at the opening of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair featuring Georgia as the Host Country.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday launched this year’s edition of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair running in the German capital and featuring Georgia as the Host Country, by highlighting hospitality as a “trademark” of the country to an audience of 2,500 in the opening event.
Zurab Pololikashvili, the Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, on Monday expressed his “deep gratitude” to the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for the country’s “esteemed hosting” of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair running in the German capital through Thursday.
Robert Habeck, the German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, on Monday praised the legacy of Georgia’s 1918-1921 Republic by saying the country had “laid the foundation for democracy” with the experiment, in comments at the opening event of the ITB Berlin tourism fair showcasing Georgia as the Host Country.
Georgian-German economic relations, priority areas of cooperation and ways of further developing them were discussed on Tuesday by Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili and Robert Habeck, the Vice Chancellor of Germany on the sidelines of ITB Berlin, a major tourism fair showcasing Georgia as the Host Country in the German capital.
Tornike Rizhvadze, the Head of the regional Government of Georgia’s western city of Adjara, on Wednesday opened a stand promoting adventure tourism in the region on fairgrounds of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair showcasing Georgia as its Host Country.
Georgia's Host Country status of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair that closed in the German capital this week, will lead the country to “new target markets” and attract more visitors, Mariam Kvrivishvili, the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development said on Friday.
Dirk Hoffmann, the Managing Director of Messe Berlin fairgrounds that are hosting this year’s edition of the ITB Berlin tourism fair, on Monday said he was glad to see Georgia as the Host Country of the event.