About the project
Georgia Guidebook is an independent travel publisher’s guide to Georgia, written for people planning a trip from abroad and available in English and Russian. Since June 2026 it has grown to over 150 guides: sights, cities, food, ready-made routes, transport, car rental, insurance and the practical side of entry, money and safety.
One rule shapes everything else here: a number on a page has to come from whoever sets it. Below is how topics are chosen, how each price and timetable is checked, where the photos come from and how the work is done.
How topics are chosen
Topics come from what travelers look up before a trip: whether they need a visa, when to go, what a week costs, how to get in from the airport, whether a rental car is worth it. We start with those questions rather than with a list of places we happen to like, so the guide covers what people plan around.
Where a guide is about places - a restaurant, a ski resort, a viewpoint - a place gets in only if it is rated well across several independent sources. A strong score on one platform with silence or complaints elsewhere isn’t a consensus. We don’t reprint other platforms’ ratings or review counts: the score is a filter at the door, not content.
How every number is checked
Every price, timetable, distance and date in a guide is traced to the page of the operator who sets it: the railway for a train fare, the airport for a transfer, the resort for a lift pass, the legal register for a visa rule. The link to that page and the date it was checked are kept in the guide’s source list.
Before a guide is published, an automated check reads those operator pages and stops the build if a number from the title, the tables or the opening section cannot be found there. Aggregators, booking marketplaces and other people’s blogs do not count as sources for numbers. On this site the pages we return to most often are georgia.travel, matsne.gov.ge, railway.ge, mta.ski and geoconsul.gov.ge.
Photos and sources
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons, with the author, the license and a link printed under each frame; a few covers come from Unsplash and Flickr and are credited the same way. A frame is used once: the same picture doesn’t travel between guides under different names.
Prices and opening hours are a guideline as of the check date, not a promise. Georgia changes quickly, so the details that decide your trip - the rental price, the deposit, the admission fee - are worth confirming on the operator’s side before you pay.
How the guide is made
Research and first drafts are done with AI tools; an editor sets the brief, checks the sources and the numbers, and decides what gets published. The date of the last check is printed at the top of every guide, so you can see how fresh it is before you rely on it.
Georgia Guidebook is one of twelve country guides run on the same editorial system, with the same rules for sources, photos and checks. The project is led by A. Kobtsev.
Affiliate links
Some links on the site are affiliate links: car rental, accommodation, tours, insurance, connectivity. If you follow such a link and book something, the service pays us a small commission. The price for you stays the same, and the project is funded and updated on those commissions.
Partnership doesn’t affect selection. A place or a service gets in on its merits and its checked numbers, not because it has an affiliate program, and when an option without an affiliate link is better or cheaper, that is the one we recommend.