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Practical or destructive: controversy surrounds new mountain road in Georgia

27 April 2018 by Sopho Aptsiauri

Omalo, Tusheti (Dominik K. Cagara /Archive)

The Georgian gov­ern­ment has an ambitious plan to construct a road con­nect­ing the moun­tain­ous regions of northeast Georgia, from Khev­sureti to Tusheti. It’s stated goal — to develop tourism and help locals travel between difficult-to-reach areas. But many, both locals and others, are against the project. They say it will wreck the envi­ron­ment, damaging the region’s unique natural appeal, and taking with it their hopes of devel­op­ing eco­tourism.

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Filed Under: Environment, Top Tagged With: development, ecotourism, georgia, juta, khevsureti, omalo, road, roshka, tourism, tusheti

Taxi licensing ‘to become mandatory’ in Georgia

25 January 2018 by OC Media

(Robin Fabbro /OC Media)

Taxi drivers in Georgia may be required to obtain licenses from local author­i­ties to continue operating, if plans announced by new Mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze on 24 January go ahead. Kaladze said the Mayor’s Office is drafting a bill to ‘improve taxi services’ in the country, which they will submit to par­lia­ment for con­sid­er­a­tion. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, kakha kaladze, regulation, taxi, tbilisi, tourism

Eleven die in hotel fire in Black Sea resort of Batumi

25 November 2017 by OC Media

(Facebook)

Eleven people have died and 19 were injured in a fire at a hotel in Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia’s Interior Minister has confirmed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: adjara, batumi, batumi fire, fire, fire safety regulations, Leogrand Hotel, tourism

Abkhazia’s tourism catastrophe — ‘who would want to come here?’

11 October 2017 by Stella Adleyba

A beach in Sukhum (Dominik K. Cagara/ Archive)

Many in Abkhazia have lamented the failure of this year’s tourist season, con­nect­ing it directly to rising levels of crime. The usual problems were com­pound­ed by high profile attacks on tourists and an explosion at an ammu­ni­tion depot which left two tourists dead.

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Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, guesthouse, hotel, safety, tourism

Rockfall hits car of tourists on Tusheti road

11 August 2017 by OC Media

Accident on Tusheti road, archive (Samkhretis Karibche)

А large rock fell on a car full of tourists heading to Tusheti, north eastern Georgia, on 10 August. They were lightly injured. There are frequent accidents on the Tusheti road, which are often fatal. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: deadly roads, georgia, infrastructure, road safety, roads, tourism, tusheti

Russian tours to Abkhazia ‘cancelled’ amid safety concerns

4 August 2017 by OC Media

Adver­tise­ment for tours around Abkhazia (Dominik K. Cagara/Archive)

A number of travel agencies operating in Abkhazia have claimed that Russian citizens are can­celling tours there, Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti has reported. This follows an explosion at a military warehouse near Gudauta on 2 August which killed two Russian tourists.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, safety, tourism

‘More than 20’ arrested in Abkhazia for murder of Russian tourist

14 July 2017 by OC Media

Andrey Kabanov (apsnylife.ru)

On 13 July police arrested a number of people in the village of Pri­morskoye suspected of the murder of a Russian tourist in Abkhazia, Caucasian Knot reports. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, murder, russia, tourism, tourist

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