2026-09-23 · Georgia News
Tour operators must register, architects get a December deadline, and visiting professionals get four months
A law-firm round-up of Georgia's 2026 regulatory changes contains three that matter directly to tourism businesses, property developers and the foreign specialists both of them hire.
Tourism: registration is now the baseline
Tour guides, tour operators and travel agencies are required to register with the Georgian National Tourism Administration. Certain services classed as risk-bearing additionally require certification, with the detail of what falls into that class still to be set out in regulation. If you run private tours, transfers or experience-based hosting as a side business rather than a registered company, this is the change that converts an informal arrangement into a compliance question.
Four months for visiting professionals
Foreign nationals may carry out short-term professional activity of up to four months per calendar year, with free pre-registration through an electronic system. The round-up lists self-employed people, independent contractors and professionals in fields such as healthcare, consulting and education. For a developer bringing in a designer for a season, or a hotel bringing in a trainer, this is a lighter route than the alternatives — provided the registration actually gets done before the work starts.
Architects: the deadline moved to 20 December 2026
The certification requirement for architects has been postponed to 20 December 2026. For anyone with a project in design now, the practical question is whether the architect on your drawings will hold the required certification when the rule bites, because the answer determines whether a permit application filed next year uses the same design team as the one that started it.
Three smaller items worth a diary note
Companies must disclose international transactions with related parties above 500,000 lari in a reporting period. Micro businesses now keep documents for three years rather than six. And for anyone in wine: the threshold defining a small winery falls from 40,000 to 25,000 litres a year, while QR-code labelling on alcoholic drinks becomes mandatory from 1 February 2027 — far enough away to plan for, close enough to order labels.
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