Mayor Adams is taking his end-of-term travel to the country of Georgia, where he’s toured a sports car dealership and new luxury suite at a Tbilisi hotel, the Daily News has learned.
The getaway appears to be for fun, not business. Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for the mayor said Adams “is not on an official trip.”
Adams’ public schedule has been sparse as he’s taken multiple international trips in his last weeks in office. The News previously reported he was jetting off to Mexico, where he said before departing he was going to “smoke a cigar, single malt Scotch and having fun.”
The mayor’s visit to the country is upon the invitation of the Silk Road Group, a private investment group, and USA Georgia Legacy Foundation, according to local media and the Telegraph Hotel, which Adams appeared to have toured on Saturday.
Levy did not immediately say whether those organizations were paying for the trip or for how long the mayor plans to be away from New York. Neither organization immediately responded to requests for comment.
Photos from the hotel’s official opening of the “New York Suite” show Adams posing for pictures with George Ramishvili, chairman of Silk Road Group.
Videos shared by Forza Tbilisi, a sports car dealership in the capital city, show Adams hopping in a bright blue convertible and flashing a smile and a thumbs up.
Adams leaves office on Dec. 31.
Since October, the mayor has gone on partly taxpayer funded trips to Albania, Israel and Uzbekistan, where he’s met with local government officials. He’s also in recent weeks been on fully taxpayer funded trips to New Orleans, Boston and Washington, D.C.
Sources close to the mayor have said he’s considering job offers with international components.
