UNWTO Sec-Gen thanks Georgian PM for Georgia’s representation at ITB Berlin tourism fair
Zurab Pololikashvili, the Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, has praised Georgia’s hosting of ITB Berlin. Photo: Zurab Pololikashvili’s Twitter
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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.
Addressing an audience of 2,500 at the opening of the fair that showcases Georgia as its Host Country, Pololikashvili, a Georgian citizen, thanked the PM for his “personal efforts [to ensure] this historic day”, and extended the gratitude to professionals from the country who had been involved in preparatory works for the occasion.
Since we last met in person at @ITB_Berlin, we have done our homework - turning crisis into opportunity to grow better.
— Zurab Pololikashvili (@pololikashvili) March 6, 2023
@UNWTO has guided the re-thinking of tourism – to maximise the long-term impacts of a more sustainable sector.
I wish everyone a productive #ITBBerlin! pic.twitter.com/0Ldac5QtSH
I would like to express my special thanks to every Georgian who works to make our country a worthy representative in the whole world”, he said, adding Georgia was a “small but beautiful country, and after seeing this fair, everyone will see why I am so proud to be Georgian”.
Taking the stage before the UNWTO chair to launch this year’s edition of ITB Berlin, Garibashvili highlighted hospitality as a “trademark” of his country and briefed the audience about Georgia’s “unique” natural environments and protected areas.
He also highlighted the long-running, almost 8,000-year-old tradition of winemaking on the territory of Georgia, and stressed only a small part of the history of Georgia, and the “great culture of our small country”, were being represented at ITB Berlin.
The head of the Georgian Government also pointed to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, the occupation of 20 percent of the country’s territories by Russia, and cited his country as “one of the safest for visitors” with “one of the fastest growing economies in the world” despite challenges.
See the PM's full speech here.
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”.
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 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.
Georgia is “one of the safest countries” and enjoying “one of the fastest-growing” economies, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday at the opening event for the ITB Berlin international tourism fair that is showcasing Georgia as its Host Country in the German capital.
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.
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.
On March 4, I travelled from Tbilisi to Berlin, only to discover at the airport of the German capital that Georgia was still in front of me in the middle of Europe. The reason for this was the numerous advertising banners that positioned Georgia impressively with the messages of “Infinite hospitality - Georgia”, “Find Infinite Wonders”, “Meet Infinite Culture” and more. I quickly realised the Georgian adventure in Berlin was only beginning.