HOLIDAYMAKERS GET GEORGIA REFUNDS
Tom Chesshyre
The Times
August 16, 2008
UK
Tourists with trips booked to Georgia are being offered refunds or
trips to Armenia instead, after the conflict with Russia this week.
Explore Worldwide, the leading UK operator to Georgia, predicts that
the country will "be back on the tourist map within a year" after
the violence has ended. The company sends about 100 holidaymakers
to Georgia annually. A spokesman said: "The type of person who goes
there on holiday will not necessarily be put off by a war."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against travel to the
country.
Several cruise lines that stop at Georgia’s Black Sea port of Butumi
are rethinking itineraries.