The G Tour team

G Tour is the travel brand of Sheni LLC, run from Castle in Old Town, Tbilisi. A small team: a founder who checks every medical and safety claim, a news desk that publishes dated, sourced items every day, and the guides and drivers who meet you at the door. Every page on gtour.ge names who wrote it and where the facts came from.

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.

87 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.

42 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.

70 articles

Guides and drivers are introduced by name when a tour is confirmed. We do not use stock photographs of people; portraits here are monograms by choice.

How we work

• Named authors. Each article carries the writer’s byline and a link to their other work.
• Primary sources. We cite the Georgian National Tourism Administration, ministries, the Roads Department, the National Library and universities — not encyclopaedias.
• Corrections. Found an error? Write to info@castle.ge; we fix it and note the change. See our editorial standards.