RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

Tourist production and regional development 189
Eco-tourism. The subtropical nature of Guria has many miracles to show to eco-tourists:
natural monuments, such as Chakukha, Mglis Natsoli, the sunrise and sunset mountains in
Bakhmaro, Tavakjvari, copper ore deposit, Eshmakis Ghele, Gontimere, Tobachkho,
Tskalambara, Eagle’s Nest, Jaji Lake, Mepis Tskaro (King’s Spring), Sakalmakhe, Korbude,
etc., forests: Shemokmedi, forest massifs of Gomi mountain, Vakijvari, Korbude, Likhauri-
Makvaneti forest, Bakhvi, Askana, Mdispiri, Vaniskedi, Ukanava, Nasakirali, Baileti, Jumati;
waterfalls: of river Adigakva – a three-stage waterfall (Makvaneti), at river Natanebi – Korbude
(Vakijvari), at river Bzhuzhi – Chakukha HPP headworks (Shemokmedi); lakes: Chinchao
Lake, Gomis Mta, Tamaris Sevda (Askana); caves: Korbude in village Vakijvari; rivers:
Supsa, Natanebi, Achi, Bakhvistskali, Bzhuzhi; mountains: Gomi mountain (at 2200 m asl),
Somlia mountain (at 2100 m asl), Vakijvari peaks (at 350-450 m asl).
Resort touristic product. Guria region has both, seaside and mountainous resorts: Ureki
– a seaside resort with magnetic sand. It is ideal for people with ill organs of blood circulation
and diseases of nervous system or breathing organs. Bakhmaro – a climatic mountain
resort for the patients with chronic diseases of breathing organs, hypotonic, anaemic or neurasthenic
patients or those with lymphadenitis. Nabeghlavi is famous for its mineral waters. It
is good to treat digestive organs. The mineral water flowing on the territory of Nasakirali is
used to treat the diseases of locomotor apparatus, peripheral nervous system and chronic gynaecologic
and stomach diseases.
Kakheti region
Religious tourism, including pilgrimage, has great potential in Kakheti region, as every
church and monastery here has very old traditions and its own festival. This is the best reason
to attract the pilgrims or simply the tourists interested in cultural tourism.
Wine tourism. Kakheti has a great potential to develop wine tourism. The history of winemaking
of Kakheti started in the III-II cc. B.C. and has been an important branch of economy
for the region to date. Most of the wineries of Georgia are concentrated in Kakheti. They
offer various services to tourists, including telling them about the process of wine-making
and wine tasting and Georgian traditions in the specially designed ethnographic corners.
Tourists can also taste wine in local traditional families. Here, a tourist can taste Kvevri wine
(wine in clay pots) made with Kakhetian technology in either really, or imitatively old Marani
(wine cellar) (Kvevri wine has been included in the UNESCO List of Non-Material Monuments
Protection since 2015) and taste the traditional Georgian dishes (often, on the background
of Georgian folk songs). A wine festival is held here every year.
Eco-tourist product. There are six protected areas on the territory of Kakheti: Batsara, Babaneuli,
Mariamjvari and Vashlovani Reserves and Tusheti and Lagodekhi National Parks. Consequently,
eco-tourism, scientific tourism and bird-watching are developed in the region.
As for the recreational tourism, there are 8 sites in Kakheti with the status of a resort
(Arkhiloskalo, Akhtala, Lagodekhi, Ujarma, Tsivi Koda, Tetri Tskaro, Torghvas Abano,
Kvareli), each of them with great potential to develop resort tourism.
Kvemo Kartli region
Region covers the south-eastern part of Georgia. Kvemo Kartli is interesting not only in
a material-cultural respect (there are up to 650 historical monuments in the region), but also