Chairperson of Parliament of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze met the President of Israel and Speaker of the Knesset in October this year. The visit held in Israel was an important step towards strengthening cooperation between Israel and Georgia. Tbilisi is to now host two delegations from Israel on December 14...

PM Opens Tbilisi Belt and Road Forum The two-day Tbilisi Belt and Road Forum started yesterday, bringing together over 1000 participants, political figures, diplomats, experts, international organizations and business sector representatives. Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili addressed the attendees at the opening. “It’s a great honor for us to be hosting so many delegations represented at the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum...

Georgia, a country which straddles the fertile valleys of the south Caucasus Mountains between Europe and the Middle East, has been named as home to the first humans to conquer the common grape, giving rise to chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and thousands of other reds and whites we enjoy today. So wrote Nicholas St. Fleur of The New York Times on Monday...

Less than 30km south of Tbilisi, a cluster of small, round mud houses stand on top of an emerald-green valley. The settlement is called Gadachrili Gora and, in a report published this week, its people were found to be the makers of the oldest wine in history. The stone age farmers who occupied this place 8000 years ago lived in a period when humans were still dependent on stone tools. Georgians have always claimed to be the inventors of wine and this evidence is now the earliest example of wine making in the world. It pre-dates 7000-year-old specimens in north-western Iran and 6000-year-old evidence found in Armenia. The discovery was published in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (PNAS). The team was composed of a group of international archaeologists led by Patrick McGovern...

Sector research is one of the key directions of Galt & Taggart Research. We currently provide coverage of Energy, Healthcare, Tourism, Agriculture, Wine, and Real Estate sectors in Georgia. As part of our tourism sector coverage, we produce a monthly Tourism Market Watch...

ქვეყანა ფოკუსში: ისრაელი, და სხვა აქტუალური თემები - ჟურნალ DIPLOMAT-ის სექტემბრის ნომერში!Country in Focus: Israel, and more... in the September Issue of Diplomat Magazine!

The two-day International Forum of Local Economic Development will be opened at The Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi on September 13, the 10th of its kind since the annual forum was established in 2007. The Forum is said to be a unique regional platform for discussing issues related to the development of municipalities. In addition...

Every year, on September 5, Jewish Culture Days are celebrated in European countries. This year, Georgia became a member of the Council of Europe's Cultural Route. ეროვნულ ბიბლიოთეკაში ებრაული კულტურის ევროპული დღეებისადმი მიძღვნილი ღონისძიება გაიმართა. ყოველწლიურად...

Mere days have passed since the Chamber of Business announced the increasing interest of businessmen from the world’s Jewish community in Georgia’s hotel sector, and now a real estate agency has added to the great news by claiming that the data of recent years shows a much larger volume of investment is also coming from Arabic countries (UAE...