From The Editor

Jemal Inaishvili

I take this opportunity to welcome you, our devoted readers.

Since hot time for tourism in summer a lot has gathered to discuss and to talk about in September. It won’t seem surprising if we begin to talk about Economics with tourism.
Famous American tourism experts visited Georgia in September, they met Georgian businessmen and specialists with assistance of the U.S. embassy new Attaché.
Several issues from world experience and from the problems existing in Georgia were analyzed at the meting. Our country also hosted the international conference, conducted with the support of the World Tourism Organization. International experts discussed concrete steps and the World Tourism Organization analyzed the possibility of assisting Georgia. We open Autumn Debates with discussing these issues on p.20.
Searching for key to European market is one of the most important tasks to our economic and business leaders. We considered the Polish Bridge to be quite interesting in the market. According to the international project – new oil pipeline of Eurasia- the country becomes our strategic partner.
After the Krakow Energy Summit representatives of Poland, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Lithuania gathered in Tbilisi, on September 26, to discuss details of Baku-Tbilisi-Poti-Odessa-Brodi-Plotsk pipeline construction and to create consortium. On October 10, presidents of participating countries at Vilnius Energy Summit signed an agreement. You can find a discussion on the above mentioned project here (see p.26).
With the initiative of Georgian president the important business forum was arranged in the Kingdom of Denmark and Republic of Finland to promote Georgian business. The forum aims to access Georgian production to European market. Poland’s Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneur’s Union decided to held a Business Forum and an exhibition in Georgia on November 14-17. Much experience related to the change export geography and cooperation with Europeans has gained in Poland. I believe, sharing this important experience would be greatly benefiting our business.
Detailed information about the companies participating in the exhibition may be obtained here. We believe, our entrepreneurs will be well prepared for the forum (p.18)
Economic survey of Poland is provided here to become convinced that the country succeeded.
In relation to 170th anniversary of the death of great Georgian writer and public figure, Ilia Chavchavadze, we offer an article by Professor Paata Koghuashvili – Ilia chavchavadze on Agriculture (See p.30)
The present edition also includes discussions on creation of free zones in Georgia and peculiarities of air traffic logistics and management. According to our specialists, a lot has been achieved in this sphere, but changes on the world market make us believe that the issue requires more attention. We renew our discussions about agri sector problems, not only because it is harvest time, but because we would like to analyze changes and peculiarities of investment climate in agri-sector.
We traditionally offer you scientific researches and survey of International market that goes through interesting changes.