Georgian hotels serve 66.5% less guests in 2020 than in 2019

Georgian hotels and hotel enterprises served 1.34 million guests in 2020 which is 66.5 percent lower than in 2019, the National Statistics Office of Georgia reported earlier today. 

30.6 percent of the guests were foreigners. Most of them (16.0 percent) were Russian citizens, which is 87.6 percent lower than in 2019. 

Most of the guests from the EU countries were citizens of Germany (3.1 percent of foreign guests) while the majority of guests from other countries were citizens of Ukraine (10.3 percent of foreign guests) and Israel (9.7 percent of foreign guests).

In 2020, hotels and hotel-type enterprises in Georgia mostly had foreign guests for holiday and recreation (66.2 percent). 

The majority of foreign guests staying in hotels and hotel-type enterprises with the main purpose of holiday and recreation were Russian and Israel nationals (22.3 and 12.3 percent).