Number of visitors to Georgia increase

Tourism Department reports that Georgia was visited by nearly 4.4 million people in 2012. This is more than a 50% increase compared to the previous year. Georgia was visited by tourists from Europe, the Americas and other continents. There was also an increase of visitors from the former Soviet Union countries. Almost 2.5 million people entered Georgia from those countries. There was a solid increase in the number of tourists from Russia.