Internal visitors traveled several times in Georgia in January-March 2017 - the total number of visits in the first quarter of the year amounted to 3 million visits, which is 1% less than the same period of the previous year. Most of the domestic visits were made to see friends and relatives (55.2%), and small number of visits (12.7%) were done for treatment/recovery and shopping (12.2%), visits for rest, entertainment and recreation reached 4,6%. 27% of internal visits were made in the capital of Georgia in the first quarter of 2017, followed by Imereti (20%) and Adjara (11%). Mtskheta-Mtianeti (24%), Samtskhe-Javakheti (24%) and Tbilisi (15%) were the most frequently visited regions.

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Safety - the freedom from harm, injury or loss - is one of the most basic human needs. Unintentional injury, and the pain, disability and death that associated with it, is a global health issue, and it is estimated that more than 3.7 million people die each year from its effects. Improving safety is a complex challenge, incorporating elements of science, behavior, culture, policy, and public health. The resources, policies and priorities for improving safety become more difficult to discern. There are few factors to identify country as a safe country. These factors usually are Crime Rate, natural calamities, corruption, economy etc...

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Domestic visitors in Georgia made several tours during a year – totally up to 13 mln visits were organized in 2016, which exceeds the data of 2015 by 5%. Most of internal visits were conducted for meeting friends and relatives (52.5%), small number of visits were made for shopping (12.3%) and treatment/health (11.1%), visits aimed at resting, entertaining and recreation composed 9%.

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In 2016 the number of bee families in Georgia made up 205,300 units at the end of the year. According to regions the most number of beehives were in Kakheti, Imereti and Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti (more than a half of the total number of beehives in these three regions composes 52,2%). In 2016 2,100,000 kg honey had been produced in Georgia. Annually, up to 2 mln t of honey is produced in the world. One of the biggest markets of honey is the European Union – it produced 268 thousand t of honey in 2015; more than 197 thousand t of honey cost up to 200 mln Euros was received via import (data of European statistics).

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In 2016 6,360,503 tourists entered Georgia (the noted amount exceeds the data of 2015 by 8%, 459,409 people). The most number of tourists were from Azerbaijan (1,523,703), Armenia (1,496,437), Turkey (1,256,561) and Russia (1,038,750) – the number of tourists from neighboring countries (5,315,451 people) made up 84% of total tourists’ amount. Income received from international tourism in 2016 made up 2,166,334 USD (exceeded 2015 by 230,41

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Based on the data of September 1, 2017, there are 664,057 registered business entities in Georgia, out of which only 173,629 are active. The economic unit is active if it meets one of the following criterias: Turnover > 0 (VAT, income and other declarations), Number of Employees > 0 (VAT, income and other declarations),Salary or number of employees> 0 (Salary announcements), Has a profit or loss (profit declaration), Pays any tax except for property taxes. The table below shows the business entity destribution in Georgia by legal status.

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World bank Project Doing Business grants each country the appropriate position depending on their ease of doing business. The ranking of 2017 presents the assessments of 190 countries. The higher the country’s rating, the more favourable business environment is for starting a business and further business activities. The total rating of …

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The EU and Georgia signed an Association Agreement on 27 June 2014. It has entered into force since 1 July 2016. The agreement introduces a preferential trade regime – the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA). This regime increases market access between the EU and Georgia based on having better-matched regulations. Declaration …

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Livestock of cattle At the end of 2016 total number of cattle made up 962,700 heads, 509,300 heads of which were female buffalos, 453,400 heads – bulls and oxen. The number of cattle more than 2 years old composed 577,700. Distribution according regions The highest quantity of cattle was fixed …

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Production price for hypermarkets and trading facilities (shops) To purchase production in a low price as far as possible from the entrepreneur is greatly important for some of high level supermarkets, though this is not a decisive factor for them, since they have a big choice of production in different …

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