YEREVAN.- Over the recent seven months, 336,326 Armenian citizens visited neighboring Georgia.

Overall 1,444,299 tourists, visited Georgia in Jan.-July 2011, a 45% increase as compared with the last year.

481,501 visitors came from the European countries, 33% of the total number against 39% last year, Georgia’s National Tourism Agency informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The number of tourists from the CIS states in Jan.-July 2011 increased by 46% (897, 616) as compared with last year.

The number of visitors from U.S. reached 15,360, from Asia 42,917, and 958 visited Georgia from Africa.