Sustainable development of Georgian resorts: modern trends and challenges

In terms of development of tourism and resort resource potential, Georgia is an outstanding country, there has been interest in it since ancient times. Among the republics of the Soviet Union, Georgia was in one of the first places with diverse natural healing resources, and was especially distinguished by balneological and climatotherapy resources.The article discusses the development prospects of resort tourism in Georgia. The country has many health facilities, spaces and opportunities that can attract local and foreign visitors seeking treatment and health rehabilitation. Georgia has a great natural and cultural heritage, which allows us to restore old resorts and develop new resorts to ultimately create more value in the tourism sector.The paper shows that the country is divided into 11 climatic and 12 resort-recreational districts, where there are more than 102 resorts and up to 1802 resort places, the classification of which is based on the main recreational factor. Mountain climatic, balneological, seaside climatic, balneoclimatic, climatic-balneological resorts are analyzed. It is mentioned that the development of resorts is a very important direction in terms of realizing the tourist produqt of Georgia.