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Company facts

Boilerplate

One line. G Tour: private tours, transfers and guides across Georgia, from Tbilisi; daily travel news, verified places and live road status at gtour.ge.

Short. G Tour is a Tbilisi-based tour operator and English-language travel newspaper for Georgia. It runs private day trips and multi-day tours, airport transfers, car with driver and licensed guides, and publishes daily travel news with primary sources, a verified register of more than 1,000 places, an events calendar, open travel datasets and live road, weather and exchange-rate status. Its office is at 3 Betlemi Rise in Old Tbilisi.

Long. G Tour (gtour.ge), a brand of Sheni LLC, combines a Tbilisi tour operator with the most complete English-language travel reference for Georgia. Travellers book private tours of Kazbegi, Kakheti, Svaneti, Mtskheta and the whole country, airport transfers, car with driver and professional guides, with published prices per group size, a written cancellation policy and a sixteen-document policy library. The editorial desk publishes daily Georgia travel news with primary sources, referenced destination guides with named authors, festival and event pages checked against official sources, a verified register of hotels, restaurants, wineries and sights, a guide for travellers from every country, a full Russian edition, open datasets and live road, weather and exchange-rate status refreshed hourly. The founder, Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, is a public-health professor and physician; health, safety and entry guides are physician-reviewed.

Founder

Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD, is the founder of G Tour. He is Professor and Head of the School of Public Health at David Tvildiani Medical University, Chair of the Public Health Institute of Georgia and Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Medical Journal. A former WHO staff member in Geneva and adviser to the Government of Georgia on public health, he divides his time between Tbilisi, Geneva and Paris. ORCID 0000-0001-7609-4515. Available for comment on travel health and safety in Georgia.

The desk

Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze

Founder and medical reviewer — MD, MPH, PhD

MD, MPH, PhD | Physician and international public health expert with experience across 30+ countries on every continent | Head of the School of Public Health, David Tvildiani Medical University, Tbilisi | Chair, Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG) | Editor-in-Chief, Georgian Medical Journal | Specialist in health & medical tourism | Founder & President, Accréditation Sans Frontières, Paris | Principal adviser to the Prime Minister of Georgia during COVID-19 | ORCID: 0000-0001-7609-4515

94 articles

Nino Gelashvili

Travel News Editor

Travel news editor at GTour. Covers travel alerts, entry rules, weather and road conditions across Georgia, with daily checks of official sources so visitors get information that is current, not last season's.

116 articles

David Kiknadze

Transport & Openings Reporter

Reports on flights, airports, railways and road transport in Georgia, plus new hotels, restaurants and attractions. Based in Tbilisi, often on the road to Batumi and Kutaisi.

46 articles

Mariam Lomidze

Culture & Events Reporter

Writes about festivals, wine harvests, concerts, museums and the tourism industry in Georgia. Her beat is what is happening this week and why it is worth the trip.

75 articles

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Logo and images

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Citing our data

GTour desk (2026). Title of page or dataset. gtour.ge, Tbilisi. URL, accessed on the date of use.