SECTOR AND VALUE CHAIN ANALYTICS THE FIFTH ANALYTICAL REPORT - (QUARTER III of 2021)

Overall, most of the respondents think that while the quality of goods and services in the tourism sector had been declining already before the COVID-19 crisis (partly due to the influence of mass tourism), in the post-pandemic period the country has an opportunity to make substantial changes to its tourism sector strategy, raising quality through promoting more sustainable forms/categories of tou. [...] Overall, most of the respondents think that while the quality of goods and services in the tourism sector had been declining over time before the COVID-19 crisis (influence of mass tourism), in the post-pandemic period the country holds an opportunity of making substantial changes in tourism 11 sector strategy, aimed at raising quality through promoting more sustainable directions of the tourism s. [...] The strategy was prepared with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) incorporating the GNTA, the Agency for Protected Areas of the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture (APA), and the National Forestry Agency (NFA), as well as the Georgian Ecotourism Association. [...] The majority of the respondents point to the need of improving the private-public dialogue in this context. [...] With regards to licenses, the state sub-agency department of environmental supervision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia is one of the issuers of hunting licenses in Georgia.