TOURISM: Mountains, seas and crisis. From Tbilisi, Tengiz Ablotia. (osservatoriobalcani.org)

Georgia has great touristic potential with beaches, mountains, ancient cities, castles and churches, but political instability, conflicts and economic crisis have not made the country attractive to visitors from the West. The war and the global economic crisis have hit all sectors of the Georgian economy, but the tourism sector, which had begun to recover in the last 2 to 3 years, has taken the hardest fall.

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