BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 24
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
In the fourth quarter of 2019, the number of Georgian resident travelers (someone who moves between different geographic locations, for any purpose and any duration) trips abroad equaled 890,500, Trend reports referring to the Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat).
Most of the trips (45.3 percent) were made by travelers of 31-50 age groups.
The number of outbound visits by Georgian visitors (a traveler aged 15 or above, resident of Georgia who took a trip outside Georgia to his/her usual environment for less than a year) from above-mentioned number made up 628,600.
Some 54.7 percent of the visits made by Georgian resident visitors were tourist-type visit (when a visitor spends a night abroad).
The majority of outbound visits, 45.9 percent, were made by the visitors of age group of 31-50 years. The number of visits made by women equaled to 41.9 percent of the total number of visits.
In fourth quarter of 2019, the purpose of the more than one third of outbound visits (35.6 percent) was visiting friends/relatives.
The majority of outbound visits were made in Turkey and Azerbaijan (263,200 and 111,700 accordingly).
The average number of nights spent during the outbound visits equaled to 3.8 nights. Some 95.5 percent of outbound visits was repeating visit.
The expenditures during the outbound visits made in fourth quarter of 2019 equaled to 505.4 million lari ($179.4 million). Average expenditure on the visit amounted to 804 lari ($285.4).
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