Baku, Azerbaijan, September 13
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
In the second quarter of 2019, the monthly average number of tourist visits by Georgian residents amounted to 449,300, which is 3.3 percent less than the indicator of relevant period of the previous year, Trend reports with reference to the Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat).
In the second quarter of 2019, the monthly average number of Georgian residents visits aged 15 years or more equaled to 949,700. In comparison to the second quarter of the previous year, the number of the visitors has increased by 3.9 percent.
In the second quarter of 2019, about 36.4 percent of visits were carried out by visitors of 31-50 age group, and 57.4 percent of visits comes on women.
According to the statistics, 25 percent of visitors are the residents of Tbilisi, 18.9 percent - of Imereti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region, 13.1 percent – Adjara, while the rest of the regions are represented by the lower share in the structure.
The majority of the visits comes on Tbilisi (in average 276,500 visits per month) and Imereti region (215,700 visits per month).
In the second quarter of 2019, the monthly average expenditure during the visits equaled to 118 million lari. This indicator is 9.7 percent lower than the indicator of the relevant period of the previous year. As for the average expenditure per visit it has decreased by 12.4 lari and equaled to 106.1 lari.
(1 USD = 2.96 GEL on September 13)