SECTOR AND VALUE CHAIN ANALYTICS THE SIXTH ANALYTICAL REPORT - (January – December 2021)

The analysis of the dynamics of the indicators such as the number of international visitors, entry of international travelers and the income from international travelers throughout the Q1 of 2022, indicators revealed that remarkable differences can be noticed between the number of entries and the number of international visitors leaving the country. [...] Overall, the adventure tourism stakeholders seemed content with the extent of their engagement in the discussions of the new draft law on tourism since the beginning of the process. [...] However, part of the respondents thinks that the associations have been important only during the pandemic with the purpose of the dialogue with the public sector, for instance about the anti-crisis supportive programs introduced by the GoG. [...] 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. [...] In the first quarter of 2022, the magnitude of the recovery declined slightly in the first two months of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, however in March 2022 the number of visitors amounted to 47% of the pre-pandemic average.