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The European Youth Parliament Georgia Batumi 3rd International Forum 2 Melikishvili Avenue 0179 Tbilisi www.eyp.org.ge infobatumiforum@eyp.org.ge

Batumi and its vicinity is one of the important tourism and resort zones on the Georgian Black Sea littoral. The climate is humid subtropical. The low annual change of temperature, with a warm winter and hot summer is a characteristic of the city. The average annual temperature is 14,5C. The average temperature in January, the coldest month, is 7,1C and in August, the warmest month, 23,2 C. The annual precipitation is 2560 mm. Showers are frequent. It rarely snows but when it does, the snow melts easily. The average annual temperature of the sea is 16,7 C at the shore.

More info is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batumi http://www.virtualtour.ge/BatumiCityTour/ http://visitadjara.com/ http://www.hansrossel.com/travel-information/georgiatbilisi/batumi.htm http://batumitravelguide.blogspot.com/

Accomodation: Batumi, a beautiful town, located at the Black Sea coast; easily charms the visitors. The town, surrounded by the splendid aroma of the sea, magnolia and acacia is attractive and fascinating all around the year. In the case of your business trip or leisure is planned, the Hotel Era Palace is the best choice. Eight storied hotel with 6 sorts of comfortably designed 39 rooms (with WIFI access) is located in the center of Batumi, in one of the main streets, giving possibility to move and reach any place of the town easy and freely. There are many trade and entertainment centers around the hotel. Batumi International Airport, Business centers or any other recreation places are in several minutes way. You need no more 5 minutes walk to reach the Black Sea coast via Batumi Boulevard. We provide high class service at Era Palace to remain the best memories about your visit to Batumi. Feel comfortably at Era Palace (see more: http://erapalace.com/geo/index.php?lang=en)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE? Given that the organizing team has diligently worked on the forum for several months, it is our utmost honor to announce call for participants open. Travel costs to and from the session are at participants own expense. Officials are asked to arrive one day prior to the session to take part in officials teambuilding. Participation fee for foreign officials is 50 euros, for delegates it amounts only 70 euros. Selected officials from Georgia should pay 40 euros, for delegates it costs 50 euros. Deadline for board members is 30th of May, but for officials 5th of June. Delegates should apply before 12th of June. Applications are to be sent to: apps.batumi@gmail.com Online applications are also available: Application Form for Delegates: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdKelFqVHJDZng 1NDZ0NzJwMGVGZnc6MQ Application Form for Jounos and Editors: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEM3ZEpuX0Q4N GsyY0dxVmVGNUNpMWc6MQ Application From for Chais, Vice President and President: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEs5T2VHc2IwWH dHUlMtZE9uZ2phWmc6MQ

In case of having questions do not hesitate to contact us: infobatumiforum@gmail.com Head organizers private contacts are also available in case of emergency:

Mariam Chikhladze Chixladze.mariami@gmail.com

Vakhtang Tsanava ts.vaxo@gmail.com

TRAVEL INFORMATION: How to Reach Georgia: Georgia is not that far and East as it may seem while having a glance at the map of Europe. There are 2 ways you can use to reach Georgia. In case you prefer arriving in Tbilisi, transfer to Batumi is covered for the forum participants. SEA WAYS TO GEORGIA Another option for getting to Georgia is by sea. Georgias main port Poti receives ferries from Ukrainian ports of Ilichevsk and Odessa (http://www.potiseaport.com/?psp-lang=en ). Departures are twice a week and is financially and logistically convenient for Eastern European participants. Booking your flight to Georgia:

AIR WAYS TO GEORGIA Flights from the centre of Europe take around 3-4 hours, daily flights to Tbilisi (http://www.tbilisiairport.com/ ) are from Kiev, Munich, Istanbul, Riga and Baku. Aktau; AlmaAta, Amsterdam, Athens, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kharkov, London, Nicosia, Minsk, Munich, Paris, Prague, Tel-Aviv, Vienna, Yerevan are also linked to Tbilisi via non-stop flights. Batumi International Airport (http://www.batumiairport.com/ ) operates daily flights with Kiev and Istanbul. ROAD WAYS TO GEORGIA Daily buses to Tbilisi depart from Salonika, Baku, Istanbul, Ankara, Trabzon and Yerevan. From Athens buses depart several times a week. International railway connections are available from Azerbaijan and Armenia (http://www.railway.ge/index.php?lang=en ). In the nearest future railway main line will enable Georgia to be connected with Turkey. Georgia is directly connected to turkey via highway which will enable participants from the Balkans to travel by car to Georgia.

Airplane ticket prices to Georgia are relatively high in comparison with Western Europe. However, early booking, or special offers e.g. by AirBaltic may reduce your travel costs. Most of the delegation could take a cheap Ryanair flight to Riga and travel Via Riga. Another option is Wizzair cheap flight to Ukraine and getting via Kiyv to Georgia.The following air companies fly to Tbilisi International airport on a regular basis: Turkish Airlines (http://www.turkishairlines.com/ ), Lufthansa (http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh_ com/de/homepage), Austrian Airlines (http://www.aua.com/ge/eng )

Sky Georgia Entry visa to Georgia is not required for (http://www.skygeorgia.org/index_en.html ), Airzena Georgian Airways (www.airzena.com ), Czech Airlines (http://www.czechairlines.com/en/worldwide/p ortal_intropage.html/), Aerosvit (www.aerosvit.com ), Belavia (http://belavia.by/ ), Air Baltic (www.airbaltic.com ), Ukraine International Airlines (http://www.ukraine-international.com/ ). Newly launched railway station Airport is the cheapest and the easiest mean of transportation as it connects Tbilisi central railway station with the airport. It is located 70 meters away from the airport building. The train departs every two hours and costs 50 Tetris or 20 Euro cents. Shuttle from the airport http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=E NG&sec_id=2720 Buses in Tbilisi http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=E NG&sec_id=2718 Subway NG&sec_id=2719 http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/index.php?lang_id=E Telephone: Country code: 995. Area code for Borgomi: 267. Coverage is good and extends the whole region. Money: Georgias currency is Lari, subdivided into 100 Tetri. One Lari is roughly 2.3 Euros and 1.7 USD (8/09/ 2010). Currency can be changed easily across the city and there is no quantity limit. Credit & debit cards are accepted in hotels. staying up to 360 days for nationals of: the European Union Member States, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Iceland Moldova, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine. Citizens of states not mentioned above will be required to obtain visa either in the Georgian consulates in their home countries (Citizens of the Russian federation via the Swiss embassy in Moscow) or once they arrive at Tbilisi or Batumi International Airports. Checkpoints are also available in Batumi and Poti ports and on the border with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. The visa fee is 100 GEL/40 EUR. The procedures for issuing the visa take no longer than 1o minutes.