BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 21
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
The visits of international travelers (who stay in a country for more than six months not for tourism, but for the purposes of education, employment, family reunion and other) to Georgia decreased by 94.5 percent in April 2020 year-on-year and stood at 35,497, Trend reports referring to the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA).
In April 2020, the largest number of visitors came from Turkey (14,219 visitors) and Russia (3,778 visitors).
Under the state of emergency declared because of the coronavirus pandemic, only Georgian citizens, truck drivers, diplomats, and humanitarian workers were able to cross the Georgian border. The data includes 12,192 Georgian citizens who have been evacuated from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Georgia will resume domestic tourism starting June 15 and will receive international tourists starting July 1.
As reported, safe tourist corridors may be opened with Israel, the Czech Republic, the Baltic countries, Greece and other countries.
Meanwhile, other data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) said that in the first quarter of 2020, the number of arrivals of international non-resident travelers (a traveler who moves between different geographic locations, for any purpose and any duration) to Georgia equaled 1.3 million, which is 17.6 percent lower compared to the previous year.
Geostat said that the largest number of visitors (197,200 visitors) was from Azerbaijan, which amounts to 22.3 percent of total number of visitors and is 7.3 percent decrease compared to first quarter of 2019.
The majority of visits were made to the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi (965,3000 visits) and the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia (371,700 visits).
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