"In Case of Failure of the Winter season, 80% of Family Hotels in Svaneti will be Closed''

Svaneti hotel owners are looking forward to the upcoming winter tourist season. According to Malkhaz Paliani, the founder of the Level Hotel in Mestia, if the winter tourist season falls like the summer, most of the family hotels in Svaneti will close, which is around 80%.

"Loans are suffocating people, otherwise people will endure hunger," Paliani said.

According to him, the situation in the region is unbearable. The hotel reservations of 100,000 GEL have been canceled since the beginning of the year.

"Large foreign companies cooperated with me, because of this I expanded the hotel last year, I added rooms, but today I have all the rooms empty," - said Malkhaz Paliani.

According to him, the government more or less took into account the situation and subsidized loans. We are talking about a bank loan discount, 70% of which is repaid by the government within 6 months.

"30% is a thing, in my case I have to pay at least 250 euros a month, which is a big pressure. I have other good extra income, otherwise, I would have been doomed to starvation, ”said Paliani.