Links
We offer the following links: the usual disclaimers about external sites apply.
BGS Featured
GeorgiCa Travel
Experienced tour organiser and specialists in interesting cultural tours.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA)
Please email UIA stating your BGS membership to receive BGS member discount on flights to Georgia and other destinations.
uia-uk@aviareps-group.com
Business
British Georgian Chamber of Commerce
Promotes and assists business between UK and Georgia
National Statistics Office of Georgia
The American Chamber of Commerce
(AMCHAM) in Georgia develops economic and commercial relations between Georgia and the international community. Its members include just about all companies in Georgia owned by western business people as well as major international groups and the current executive director, George Welton, is British. AMCHAM lobbies government to protect and promote its members’ interests in Georgia on all matters from taxation to trade and holds regular networking events.
Georgian Societies
Newcastles of the World Association – Akhaltsikhe
The Georgian town of Akhaltsikhe means Newcastle!
Newport Kutaisi Association
Newport and Kutaisi have been twinned since 1989
Northern Georgian Society
Lovely website and home of Yorkshire’s only Georgian choir, Samzeo
Tbilisi Heritage Group
Evolved out of BGS, dedicated to Tbilisi’s historic architecture
News
Restaurants and Wine
Gaumarjos
Georgian wine importer
Little Georgia (Angel & Shoreditch)
Tamada (St Johns Wood)
Popular Georgian restaurant in St John’s Wood, London run by Tamara Lordkipanidze
Travel
Trekking in Svaneti
Website offering Tourism Information and Trekking routes in Georgian Svaneti Region. The website was supported by Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES). The FES Foundation has also created a Tourism Information Center in Mestia.
Welcome Georgia
Hotels, lodges and other tourist information
Other
British Embassy Tbilisi
HM Ambassador Alexandra Hall is a BGS Honorary President
Evolution Computing
Ben Clay of Evolution Computing originally designed the BGS website
FaRiG – Friends of Academic Research in Georgia
FaRiG helps scholars in Georgia, working in the humanities, to carry out research and publish the results. By doing this, FaRiG contributes to the preservation of Georgia’s unique cultural heritage and making their work better known in the international scholarly community.
Georgian Embassy
The Georgian Embassy regularly hosts BGS events, and Ambassador Revaz Gachechiladze is an Honorary President of BGS. Counsellor Tamara Kapanadze is an adviser to the BGS board.