TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of foreign visitors to Georgia went up 12.9% and the number of tourists 18.1% in the last six months, the National Tourism Administration said on Monday.
The latest figures confirm that Georgia continues to attract more visitors.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The United Arab Emirates has signed a contract to buy military equipment worth USD 32 million from the Georgian state-owned company Delta.
Delta’s former director Ucha Dzodzuashvili said the first batch of equipment
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian businessman may open the first ever McDonald’s restaurant in rival Armenia, Sputnik Armenia reports.
The news agency reports that the opening of the first of the chain’s restaurants in Armenia was decided at a meeting
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s direct foreign investments in the first quarter of 2016 was 103 percent more than in the same period last year, Georgia’s National Statistics Office writes in a preliminary report.
Investments in the first quarter amounted to USD 376 million.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The company Georgian Manganese, which owns manganese mines in Chiatura and a ferro-alloy plant in Zestaponi, lost a court case against the government on Tuesday and must pay a 200 million laris (USD over 88.2 million) tax penalty
TBILISI, DFWatch–Car dealers demonstrated in Rustavi on Friday against the government’s initiative to ban the registration of cars with right-hand drive from 2017.
The protest took place at Georgia’s largest car market, located in Rustavi,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Construction of wind a farm in Gori, 80km west of the capital, will be completed by the end of 2016, according to the Energy Ministry.
Deputy Energy Minister Irakli Khmaladze said the power station
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first two months of 2016 was 2 percent less than last year, totaling USD 1,413 million.
According to a new monthly report by the National Statistics Department (GeoStat), export was down 13 percent to USD 281 million,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s president has appointed a new head of the National Bank (NBG).
The appointment was signed by President Giorgi Margvelashvili on Thursday.
Outgoing NBG head Giorgi Kadagidze will be replaced Koba Gvenetadze, a former politician
TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia went 23 down percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary figures from Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
According to the report, the amount