National Statistics Office of Georgia has revealed the domestic tourism statistics for the second quarter.
According to the Office’s data the monthly average number of Georgian resident visitors aged 15 years or more equaled to 596.5 thousand, with 675.7 thousand domestic visits within the country.
Compared to last year’s same period the number of visitors has decreased by 37.2 %.
Among these domestic trips, for 47,9 % the purpose of the visit was visiting friends or relatives. The second most common purpose is visiting other house by 17,8% and the third reason was shopping by 13,9 %.
34,2 % of the expenditure on the domestic trips was spent on shopping, while 28,4 % spent on food and beverages and 19,8 % on transportation.
