Georgian wine company "Shuhman Wines" refers to theAgency for Tourism to promote the development of agro-tourism. 

The company’s Director Nutsa Abramishvili states "Commersant" that Georgia has a great potential for development of agro and wine tourism, but the Government and Tourism Administration do not conductan active campaign, which is mandatory for this industry.

"There is no single strategy for development of tourism and to say that advertising campaigns are expensive is illogical, since at this stage there is not even a plan under which it will be possible to carry out such a campaign. "Shuhman Wines " has been working in the field of agritourism more than a year  - special wine  tours have been developed in which tourists can take part in the grape harvest and wine production by traditional methods , taste   traditional Georgian dishes , take part in wine tasting , etc.We have a hotel and restaurant. The total cost of the package is 200 GEL "- she notes.

Dairy producer "Agrotech " also has plans for the development of agro-tourism.

According to the company’s  CEO Giorgi Nadareyshvili,  130 hectares of land are already bought, whererare varieties of grapes, fruit trees, vegetables will be planted, as well as  the production of honey and other agricultural products will b organized . tourists will be able to take part in all this. 

According to businessmen who are interested in the development of agro-tourism, they have a number of claims against the government - in particular, it has not yet analyzed the preferences of  5 millionvisitors who visited Georgia in 2013.

 " There is no information about how many tourists where and how rested , which tourism sector is of most interest to visitors. Moreover, there are problems with the statistics, which - according to its figures, claims that Georgia was visited by more tourists than Israel , and this is an obvious nonsense.Number of visitors is not limited to tourism – for example, Georgia is  a transit country , it is also associated with a large number of foreign nationals coming here . Therefore, the authorities should clearly say investors  how many people come to Georgia just as tourists , in order business to be able to correctly plan marketing " - say entrepreneurs .

Source: commersant.ge