A translation bureau for Borjomi - TARGMANEBI's service for a resort where a new and powerful tourist flow appeared over the last decade and brought its own documentary culture with it. A Gulf family stays in Borjomi for a month or two, often across several generations, and needs what a European guest rarely does: a halal menu and service description in Arabic, the spa's medical programmes and reports, certificates for the children's summer schools, a long-term accommodation agreement. A buyer or investor needs the sale contract, a hotel management agreement, residence papers, and legalization of documents, since most Gulf countries are not party to the Apostille Convention and require consular legalization instead.
Alongside the Arabic-speaking flow, Borjomi has its traditional profile too: a mineral water spa with patients from Ukraine, Israel and the Baltic states, a national park with hikers, the winter flow heading up to Bakuriani, and Borjomi families whose children are in Europe. Tbilisi is two and a half hours away; the courier comes to Borjomi weekly, and more often in summer.
A Gulf family in Borjomi - from guest to owner
An Arabic-speaking visitor's route through Borjomi has three stages, and each brings its own circle of documents and its own rule of certification:
As a guest
- Hotel and apartment descriptions in Arabic for platforms and agents
- Halal menu and service rules - prayer times, family areas, the kitchen
- Long-term rental agreement in two languages
- Spa medical programmes and doctors' reports in Arabic
- Children's certificates for summer schools and camps
As a buyer
- Buyer's passport and Emirati or Qatari documents in Georgian
- Power of attorney for a representative - with consular legalization and translation
- Bilingual sale contract and the registry extract in Arabic
- Bank certificate on the origin of funds for the Georgian bank
- Interpreter at the notary in Borjomi or Tbilisi
As owner and investor
- Hotel management agreement with a local operator in two languages
- Residence documents in Georgian for every family member
- Company registration - Gulf company documents with legalization
- Tax and utility correspondence for the owner in Arabic or English
- Halal certification documents for the restaurant
The main difference with Gulf documents is legalization: a power of attorney or company extract issued in the Emirates, Saudi Arabia or Qatar is accepted in Georgia not with an apostille but with consular legalization - and in the other direction a Georgian document goes through legalization there. The procedure runs in stages and takes longer than an apostille, so we plan a buyer's package before they arrive. In translating Arabic documents, the transliteration of names is checked with particular care: an Arabic name has one Latin spelling in the passport but can be written several ways in Georgian, and only one form may survive into the registry.
Halal and the language of service
For an Arabic-speaking guest a text is not just a translation - it is service culture. In the menu: the halal marking, an exact list of ingredients, a clear separation of alcohol and pork products. In the hotel rules: the prayer room, family hours at the pool, women's areas. For the staff: a short list of Arabic phrases. These texts are prepared by an Arabic-direction translator familiar with Gulf service etiquette, while halal certification documents - the application, the inspector's report, the certificate - are translated in both directions with the bureau stamp.
The spa, Likani, the park - Borjomi's traditional flow
Borjomi's mineral water resort, the Likani sanatoriums and the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park bring visitors all year round - patients from Ukraine, Israel and Poland, hikers from Europe. Their documents are familiar: on arrival, the referring doctor's report translated into Georgian for the balneologist; on departure, the sanatorium's discharge summary and invoice in the patient's language; platform texts for the hotels; trail descriptions and safety rules for the park; tour operator contracts. A balneological text is written by a translator experienced in medicine, a tourism text by one focused on style, without a stamp.
Borjomi families
Beyond the season Borjomi is an ordinary town, where a school leaver translates a certificate for universities in Tbilisi and Italy, a father working in Germany needs a salary certificate in Georgian, a grandfather with Soviet service prepares his record book for a pension, and many residents turn their homes into guest houses in summer and ask for a description of the house in Arabic. Those papers - the family ones and the hotel ones - come in on one number and go back to Borjomi on one courier run.
Languages in orders from Borjomi
Because of the summer flow, Borjomi is one of the rare Georgian towns where Arabic matches English during the season - menus, descriptions, contracts, legalized documents; English is the language of investors, platforms and hikers. Russian, Ukrainian and Polish appear with the spa's patients, German and French with European guests, and Italian, Greek and Spanish in local families' papers. Turkish is tied to the Vale road and construction, while Dutch, Czech and Chinese are rare from Borjomi. For a medical document in Hebrew, call us first.
The process for a hotel and an investor
Season material in April
Menu, hotel description, rules and the draft agreement - as files, by email to info@targmanebi.ge; an investor's documents as photos or scans, with the legalization page, before they arrive.
Guest, registry or consulate
Who the document is for decides whether it needs Arabic service style or legal wording, and whether the bureau stamp, a notary, an apostille or consular legalization applies.
Arabic-direction translator, one spelling of names
Halal and service texts are prepared by a translator who knows the service culture, sale contracts and powers of attorney by a legal one; the Georgian spelling of Arabic names is fixed once and runs through every document.
File and paper in Borjomi
Tourism text as a print-ready file; certified and legalized paper comes to Borjomi by courier - more often during the season - or you collect it at the Tbilisi office.
Price and turnaround
An order from Borjomi is at Tbilisi prices. A halal menu and an Arabic hotel description are in the simple category - one to two days, no certification; a bilingual rental or management agreement three to four days; a buyer's passport with notarization two to three; where legalization is required the timing is set by the stages of the procedure and planned before arrival; a spa medical report one day, a family certificate two to three. Hotels that translate regularly through the season have templates, a terminology base and a monthly invoice; an investor's file stays with one manager for years. TARGMANEBI's legal form is a sole trader - Mariam Zumadze, ID 30601010853, a lawyer by profession, for whom the terminology of legalization and conveyancing is daily work. A buyer's sums and a family's circumstances go nowhere from us, and a confirmed inaccuracy is corrected free of charge.
Have a hotel or apartment in Borjomi and need a halal menu, a description or an agreement in Arabic for the summer guests? A Gulf investor buying a hotel with documents that need legalization? Send us the file in April - everything will be ready before the season.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Borjomi
A UAE citizen is buying an apartment in Borjomi and the power of attorney was drawn up in the Emirates. Can it be apostilled?
No - the Emirates are not party to the Apostille Convention, so the power of attorney goes through consular legalization and is then translated into Georgian with notarization. That procedure takes longer than an apostille, so we plan the package before the buyer arrives and set out the stages in advance.
A halal menu in Arabic - is that just a translation or something more?
More: a full list of ingredients, halal marking dish by dish, a clear separation of alcohol and pork products, and dish names in a form Gulf guests recognise. It is prepared by a translator who knows the service culture, and the translator will ask you one or two questions about the kitchen.
A Saudi family is staying two months in my hotel and wants to enrol the children in summer school. What gets translated?
The children's birth certificates or passports into Georgian for the school, vaccination and medical information, and the parent's consent; in the other direction the school's programme and rules into Arabic for the family. Most schools accept a translation certified with the bureau stamp; it is ready in one to two days.
A Gulf investor has bought my hotel and is entrusting the management to me. What language should the agreement be in?
Bilingual - Georgian in one column, Arabic or English beside it - so that the owner and the management company sign one and the same terms; the reporting to the owner then uses the same terminology. The investor's residence and company documents, with legalization and translation, are in the same package.
A Ukrainian patient is being treated at a Likani sanatorium and is taking the report home. How fast is it?
The resort doctor's report, the list of procedures and the invoice in Ukrainian or Russian within one day, with the bureau stamp, as a file - for the insurer and the treating doctor. A medical translator checks diagnosis codes and procedure names separately.
Does the courier come to Borjomi more often in summer?
Yes - during the season the courier comes to Borjomi and Likani several times a week, according to the hotels' packages; in winter, weekly. Tourism text needs no paper at all, and an investor's originals travel only for legalization and apostille.
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