One of the most influential websites of hotel business in the world TOPHOTELPROJECTS writes about a new wave of construction of major branded hotels in Georgia. According to the portal, it is connected with the growth of tourism and demand for hotels in the country. 

According to the site, soon several new large and medium-sized hotels will open in Batumi. 

Currently 170 hotels meant for  7 000 seats are functioning in Tbilisi and  in the next 3 years the hotels with a total capacity of 1 000 seats will be built. In particular, it is planned to build Rixos, Millenium Hotel, Park Inn, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi, InterContinental and Hilton Garden Inn hotels.

Kempinski, Holiday Inn, Hilton, Swiss Hotel, Babylon Tower, Cubic Tower and Gazelli, Turkish association Mersin Tourism Batumi will open in Batumi. 
 

In Tbilisi, the construction of a grand hotel began  on the main avenue of Tbilisi, which is carried  out by the fund from the UAE Abu Dhabi Group, which invests in the project about USD 40 million. 

The hotel will be completed  by 2016. 

In the same year, a 14-storey hotel Hilton Garden Inn will be opened on the investments of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Georgian development company Redix.

Simultaneously,  Redix  plans to build hotels in three tourist regions of the country. 

The Adjara Group Hospitality together with InterContinental Hotels Group is reconstructing the publishing house of the Soviet period in the center of Tbilisi, where InterContinental hotel will open in 2016.

Batumi Hotel Holiday Inn will open at the end of 2014, Rooms Hotel in Borjomi-  in 2015. 
 

The International Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, managing the brands Radisson, Park Plaza and Park Inn, also has  big plans in  Georgia. 
 

According to Area Vice President for  Eastern Europe Tom Flanagan, 10 new hotels are planned to open in Georgia in 2017-18.

Currently, International Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group owns two hotels in Georgia - Radisson Blu Iveria hotel in Tbilisi and Batumi,  in 2015 Park Inn hotel will be also opened  in the capital. 

Turkish company Divan Group plans to build non-branded hotels in Georgia - in particular, in May 2014, it has already opened a hotel consisted of 65 rooms in Batumi. 

The development company Red-Co plans to build hotel  and residential apartments in the ski resorts of Gudauri and Bakuriani.

Source:commersant.ge