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GEORGIA TODAY
DECEMBER 28 - JANUARY 8, 2017/2018
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WHERE to Go, Stay, Eat, Drink & Buy This Winter BY GEORGE SHARASHIDZE, PUBLISHER & GENERAL MANAGER
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he Winter issue is out! Check out the Where.ge team’s top tips of what to do and see this holiday season! We close the current year celebrating that your favorite travel guide WHERE.ge now stands as winner of the prestigious ‘Welcome to Georgia! National Tourism Awards 2017!’ in the nomination of Best Marketing Campaign of a Tourism Destination! On behalf of the whole team of WHERE.ge, I would like to thank the jury members, leaders and opinion-makers of Georgia’s hospitality industry who voted for us. And of course, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the WHERE.ge team, headed by British Editor Katie Ruth Davies, marketing managers, designers, photographers, distributors and every single contributor. Being a winner of a ‘Welcome to Georgia’ award is a measure of our high standards and an extra reason for us to keep up the good and
responsible work we do. The WHERE.ge December-January issue is full of recommendations and updated information about Where to Go and Stay during the wonderful winter season in our famous and rapidly-developing ski resorts, including Bakuriani, Gudauri and Svaneti. Our Eat and Drink sections are always full of the best gastronomic ideas, but the New Year and Christmas holidays
give us an even more important reason to spread the word on the Georgian tradition of feasting, with a focus on the special must-have dishes of the season, which in Georgia lasts from December 25 to ‘Old New Year’ on January 14, with two major holidays in between – New Year’s Eve on December 31 and Orthodox Christmas on January 7! In 2018, we pledge to keep to our mission to provide travelers from around the world with the most accurate information about Where to Go, Stay, Eat, Drink and Buy in Georgia. This ambitious goal will be achieved through the recently launched web portal www.where.ge, with an innovative service component embedded in the website - a 24/7 travel consultancy and service providing by WHERE.ge professional travel managers; offering tailor-made tours in Georgia, hotel bookings, car rental and more! Once again, dear readers and partners, thank you for your continued support during 2017! We believe that, together, we will celebrate much success in the New Year of 2018! For the latest special offers and event news, and to plan your New Year weekend, go to Where.ge and search ‘New Year,’ for WHERE to Go, Stay, Eat, Drink and Buy this holiday!
PASHA Bank Funds Planting of 2018 Trees within ‘Aghadgine’ Campaign
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s a New Year gift for its partners, PASHA Bank is to plant 2018 trees as part of the ‘Aghadgine’ campaign that aims to recover the burnt territory of Borjomi forest. “In 2017, PASHA Bank initiated and participated in several environmentalfriendly projects,” said Anano Korkia, Head of PR and Marketing Department at PASHA Bank. Last year we congratulated our partners on the New Year by planting 2017 Georgian Pine Trees in damaged territory near Borjomi. As the feedback we received was uniformly positive, it encouraged us to stay on course, and this year to once again join the ‘Aghadgine’ campaign and fund the planting of 2018 trees. We truly hope that our partners will enjoy this gift.” Below is the list of environmental projects carried out by PASHA Bank: • Initiation of a project aiming at col-
lecting paper for recycling, where companies donate used paper and in return for each kilogram, 13 Tetris are transferred to the ‘Aghadgine’ campaign; • 1,000 Georgian Oak (Quercus Iberica) and Imeretian Oak (Quercus Imeretina) trees were planted in the Ajameti Managed Reserve, the latter being on the Red List of threatened plant species; • An additional 500 trees planted in the scope of Aghadgine near Borjomi, before which PASHA Bank had already planted 2017 trees in the area that was destroyed by fire in 2008; • Support of the green project by Rotary Club Tbilisi Ambassador carried out in Kondoli village (Telavi region, Kakheti), which implied planting trees in the school yard, building a playground and formation of an eco-club; • Donation of Caucasian Fir trees to 10 schools in Tbilisi in the scope of GEORGIA TODAY’s CSR project on International Children’s Day, June 1.