# Press and company facts — G Tour > gtour.ge — G Tour, Gateway to Georgia. Cite as: GTour desk, gtour.ge. - Canonical: https://gtour.ge/press/ - Author: - Published: 2026-10-26 - Updated: 2026-10-26 - Language: en - Russian edition: https://gtour.ge/ru/press/ Facts, descriptions and biographies for journalists, directories and partners, in the wording we use everywhere. Copy freely; contact [info@castle.ge](mailto:info@castle.ge) for interviews, data or photographs. ### Company facts | Brand | G Tour (gtour.ge) | | --- | --- | | Legal entity | შპს „შენი“ (Sheni LLC), identification number 406548222, registered 9 February 2026, Tbilisi | | Offices | 3 Betlemi Rise, Tbilisi 0105, Georgia (at Castle in Old Town) · 32 Boulevard de Rochechouart, 75018 Paris, France (representative) | | Contact | info@castle.ge · +995 577 41 63 14 (WhatsApp) | | What we do | Private tours, transfers, guides and MICE across Georgia; an English- and Russian-language travel desk publishing daily news, referenced guides, a verified register of places, an events calendar, open datasets and live road status | | Languages | English, Russian, Georgian, French | | Founder | Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD | | Head of Tour Operations | Giorgi Balakhadze | | Editorial standards | [gtour.ge/standards](https://gtour.ge/standards/) · policies at [gtour.ge/policies](https://gtour.ge/policies/) | | Open data | [gtour.ge/data](https://gtour.ge/data/) (CC BY 4.0, cite as “GTour desk, gtour.ge”) | ### 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](https://orcid.org/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](https://gtour.ge/author/admin/) #### 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](https://gtour.ge/author/nino-gelashvili/) #### 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](https://gtour.ge/author/david-kiknadze/) #### 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](https://gtour.ge/author/mariam-lomidze/) Guides and drivers are introduced by name when a tour is confirmed. 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