The National Statistics department began to publish data on Georgian travelers. According to the survey, in the first quarter of 2019:
the number of Georgia’s resident visitors amounted to 484.8 thousand. The highest number of visits – 37.3 %, was carried out with the purpose of visiting friends / relatives.
as for the expenses, they amounted to 359.3 million GEL and the average expenditure of one visit was 741.0 GEL.
most of the visits were carried out in Turkey and Azerbaijan, respectively, 191.9 thousand and 112.1 thousand visits.
the average number of travel nights was 3.4 nights.
91.6 % of visits were re-visits.