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Oct 04, 2018 (newstodate): Georgia is seeing a significant rise in incoming travelers, marking it as an upcoming tourist destinations.
In January-September 2018, 6,788,377 international travelers visited Georgia, up 11.2 percent y-o-y, of which 3,772,102 were tourists which was also an increase by 17.7 percent.
Increased pressure on the airports now drives construction of a new passenger terminal at Kutaisi International Airport, at the country's Black Sea coast.
A project designed by the Dutch architectural company UN Studio will allow the airport to raise capacity from currently 300 to 1,100 passenger per hour, with the new 24,176 sq m terminal adding seven new gates.
Construction, now in full swing, will be completed in 2019.
Severely damaged by Russian aerial bombardment in August, 2008, during the military conflict between Georgia and Russia, Kutaisi was officially opened as a Category A airport on September 27, 2012, as one of three international airports in Georgia after Tblisi and Batumi.
Kutaisi Int'l Airport has a 2,600 m runway to serve both own operations as well as providing a new alternate airport for international air traffic.
One leading airline at Kutaisi is Wizz Air with latest new route launched on July 3, 2018, offering three weekly rotations between Bucharest and Kutaisi.
With this new route, Wizz Air is operating flights to Kutaisi from 20 European airports including also flights from Riga in Latvia from March 25, 2018, and from Vilnius in Lithuania since March 31, 2014.
In January-September 2018, 6,788,377 international travelers visited Georgia, up 11.2 percent y-o-y, of which 3,772,102 were tourists which was also an increase by 17.7 percent.
Increased pressure on the airports now drives construction of a new passenger terminal at Kutaisi International Airport, at the country's Black Sea coast.
A project designed by the Dutch architectural company UN Studio will allow the airport to raise capacity from currently 300 to 1,100 passenger per hour, with the new 24,176 sq m terminal adding seven new gates.
Construction, now in full swing, will be completed in 2019.
Severely damaged by Russian aerial bombardment in August, 2008, during the military conflict between Georgia and Russia, Kutaisi was officially opened as a Category A airport on September 27, 2012, as one of three international airports in Georgia after Tblisi and Batumi.
Kutaisi Int'l Airport has a 2,600 m runway to serve both own operations as well as providing a new alternate airport for international air traffic.
One leading airline at Kutaisi is Wizz Air with latest new route launched on July 3, 2018, offering three weekly rotations between Bucharest and Kutaisi.
With this new route, Wizz Air is operating flights to Kutaisi from 20 European airports including also flights from Riga in Latvia from March 25, 2018, and from Vilnius in Lithuania since March 31, 2014.