International visitor spending in Georgia fell 8.2% in the third quarter
International visitors spent 5.7 billion lari in Georgia in the third quarter of 2026, 8.2% less than a year earlier. The figures appear in Geostat’s report on international visitors.
Average spending per visit was 2,194.4 lari, down 11.1%. The average number of nights per visit was 6.4, compared with 6.3 a year earlier. Visitors made 2.6 million visits, 3.3% more, and 76.7% of visits were repeat ones.
Leisure and recreation accounted for 58.8% of visits. Tbilisi recorded 1.35 million visits and Adjara 1.29 million. These are counts of visits, not unique people.
Related directory categories: Hotels in Tbilisi.
Sources: Source publication; Source document (PDF).
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