Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards is an Annual National Award Ceremony in the field of tourism in Georgia. Project’s main mission is to encourage tourism and hospitality industry in Georgia and to promote the awareness of the country worldwide.

On the Second Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards 2016 Ceremony winners will be name in 19 separate categories among the Awards participants: hotels; travel agencies and tour operators; festivals and events; restaurants, food spots and wineries; travel photographer; business and entertainment venue; companies focused on the hospitality industry or tourism sector.

One of the nominations “THE FASTEST GROWING COMPANY OF THE YEAR IN THE SME SEGMENT” is created by the Official Partner JCS “Bank of Georgia” within the Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards.

Growing is the main element for developing any business and for country’s economic development. One of the most important segments which contributes significantly to the development Georgian economy is SME segment. Due to this reason, JCS “Bank of Georgia” and the Welcome to Georgia! Award created a special category for companies working in the tourism and hospitality industry, SME segment, to encourage and motivate those businesses.

The only criteria for participation in this category are that company’s annual turnover should be within 12 million GEL and the companies should be achieving significant success in 2016.

The Second Official Award Ceremony will be held on December 2 in the recently opened hotel “The Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi”.