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Silk Road Tourist Union
Legal Status: Non-governmental non-commercial organization
Address and telephone: 118 I. Javakhishvili St. 380064 Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel./fax: (995 32) 53-62-33
E-mail: info@discovergeorgia.org
URL: www.DiscoverGeorgia.org
Date of establishment: 1999 year
Head of the organization: Chairman - Givi Givishvili
Brief information about the organization:
- - Main objectives are conducting events, contributing to friendship establishment;
- - Promoting friendly relations and cooperation among countries and people in the space of the Silk Road;
- - Strengthening cultural, scientific, educational and economical relations through tourism development.
- The main purpose of the Union is to provide tourist area along the Silk Road with information popularizing its potential. SRTU is working under a grant from the Eurasia Foundation to create a tourist information service in the South Caucasus. SRTU sees this work as the first step in a series of projects to revitalize Caucasus’ tourism industry. The next stage is to re-integrate the tourism industries and finally, the entire Silk Road from Europe to Asia.
List of activities:
10-13 July, 200019 February 1999 -
Foundation of NGO Silk Road Tourist Union
April, 1999-
Starting point on a long-term project 'Information Service for Tourist Space of the Silk Road", 1st stage - Creating Database of Georgia's Tourism Potential
August, 1999-
Grant from Eurasia Foundation for implementing the project "'Information Service for Tourist Space of the Silk Road"
April 2000
Making the web-site of Georgia’s tourist potential: April 2000
Making CD version of the web-site of Georgia’s tourist potential
5-7 May, 2000
Participation in the Caucasus International Tourism Fair
Conducting an international event “Regional seminar on tourism as a Tool for economic development in the South Caucasus” in Chakvi (Batumi), with participants from eight countries. The Soros Foundation Program “East-East” sponsored the seminar.
February, 2001
Publication of collected materials of the regional tourism seminar
8 March 2001
Arrangement of a business meeting on the issues of collaboration in tourism of the South Caucasus with the participation of the tourist organizations of Georgia
Armenia and Azerbaijan, foundation of an international NGO “Caucasus Tourist Information System” 26-29 April, 2001
Participation in the Caucasus International Tourism Fair
22 May, 2001
Conducting a seminar “Outcomes of the visit of representatives of the South Caucasus tourism organizations to Poland”
July, 2001
Grant from Eurasia Foundation for implementing the project “Caucasus Tourist Information System"
18-21 April 2002
International Conference “Information Technologies in Tourism”
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