Number of tourists visiting Georgia increases 8% in Jan-July 2019: Most visitors from Russia
Georgia hosted 2,697,624 tourists (+8%) and 4,961,918 international travellers (+7.8%) in January-July 2019, announces the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).
Most visitors came from:
- Russia (+22.1%)
- Azerbaijan (+5.6%)
- Armenia (+2.9%)
- Turkey (-0.3%)
The countries with the most significant increase were:
- Tajikistan (+242.3%)
- Uzbekistan (+155.5%)
- Kyrgyzstan (+102.3%)
- China (+52.8%)
- Saudi Arabia (+52.6%)
- Kazakhstan (+54%)
A positive trend was maintained by visitors from the European Union:
- Germany (+40.7%)
- Latvia (+31.6%)
- Poland (+26.9%)
- The United Kingdom (+24.6%)
- France (+25.5%)
Head of the GNTA Mariam Kvrivishvili said that last month the number of Russian visitors decreased by 6.4 percent and Russian tourists – by 14 percent.
Overall, in July Georgia hosted 1,099,474 international visitors (+5.8%) and 570,482 tourists (+1%).
In July most visitors came from Azerbaijan (+13.1%), Russia (-6.4%), Turkey (+9.6%) and Armenia (+3.2%).
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