Georgia’s hotels and hotel-type enterprises served 3 666.1 thousand guests in 2018, 8.4 percent higher compared to the same period of the previous year, the Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat) said on Tuesday.

According to the agency, in 2018, there were 1 541 economic entities working in hotel services in Georgia which owned 1 639 hotel and hotel-type enterprises (including local units and branches). This figure is 2.8 percent higher than in 2017. The most widespread organizational-legal form for economic entities engaged in hotel services was the limited liability society, which comprised 58.3 percent of the total number of hotels and hotel-type enterprises operating in 2018.

99.1 percent of hotel and hotel-type enterprises were privately owned and 0.9 percent stateowned. In 2018, the total area of the hotels and hotel-type enterprises in Georgia was 1 927.9 thousand square meters, which is 7.7 percent more than in 2017. Out of which it was leased 70.5 thousand square meters, and the living area of all rooms was 958.6 thousand square meters, which is 8.7 percent more than in the previous year.

In 2018, the total number of places in hotels and hotel-type enterprises was 72.6 thousand, which is 8.4 percent higher than the same indicator of previous year. The total number of rooms increased by 8.2 percent and equaled to 33.2 thousand.

The majority of foreign guests staying in hotels and hotel-type enterprises with the purpose of holiday and recreation were Russian and Turkish nationals (20.7 and 11.2 percent correspondingly).

source: IPN