Legislative gaps of tourism in Georgia and solution ways
Abstract
The Government of Georgia has declared tourism as the priority direction of economic development of the country for the last 20 years. After 90s, much has been done for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the hereof field. Despite of evident positive changes, only the small part of the tourist potential of Georgia has been used. The main problem, impeding realization of improvement of tourist potential, is named as imperfection of the respective legislative base.
The work aims to reveal the gaps existent in the current laws on tourism and to develop practical directions for elimination thereof.
The tasks of the survey are: identification of the problems related to limited legal area on tourism and scarcity of the legislative base; consideration of activities directed to improvement of legal environ and state policy on development of tourism in Georgia.
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