A tourism report for May 2021 has been published. According to the document, last month, a record number of 104,700 visitors visited Georgia since the beginning of the pandemic. This flow of visitors is 180% higher than the previous year.
According to statistics, more than half of the visitors - 52,688 visitors - entered the country by air last month, which is related to the activated air traffic.
Despite the relative recovery of tourism, its volume is 85% less than in the pre-pandemic period (May 2019).
From which countries did the visitors enter Georgia in May?
- Turkey - 21,855 visitors, an increase of 37.8% over the previous year
- Ukraine - 11,533 visitors, an increase over the previous year 1049.9%
- Israel - 11,244 visitors, an increase over the previous year 24886.7%
- Russia - 10,818 visitors, an increase of 186.4% over the previous year
- Armenia - 9,863 visitors, an increase over the previous year by 26.4%
- Georgia - 9,537 visitors, an increase over the previous year 387.6%
- Azerbaijan - 5,704 visitors, an increase of 74.1% over the previous year
- Kazakhstan - 4,664 visitors, an increase over the previous year 1147.1%
- Uzbekistan - 2,528 visitors, an increase of 690.0% over the previous year
- Belarus - 2,349 visitors, an increase of 216.2% over the previous year
- India - 1,496 visitors, an increase of 13500.0% over the previous year
- United States - 1,167 visitors, an increase over the previous year of 3664.5%
- Iran - 1,141 visitors, an increase of 1401.3% over the previous year
- Poland - 837 visitors, an increase of 10362.5% over the previous year
- Germany - 745 visitors, an increase over the previous year by 2028.6%
According to the National Bank of Georgia, in April, when 83,000 visitors visited Georgia, the country's revenue from international tourism amounted to $ 50 million. It is expected that in May this figure would be 10-15% higher.
