The People Behind the Journeys
Shaped by Presence
Every journey we curate is born from personal closeness: winemakers, producers, and places we know firsthand and visit regularly. Not planned from a distance, but shaped by experience on the ground, grown over time and carried by real relationships.
This is how journeys emerge that aren't designed to show as much as possible, but to experience what matters. With space for conversation, context, and depth.
Seeing Beyond the Obvious
Para: beyond the familiar. Vis, from the Latin videre: to see.
Paravis means seeing a country past its surface. Not the standard route, but the perspectives that only open up when someone who belongs takes you along.
Between Vienna and Tbilisi
Paravis is run by two people at the two ends of the same road: one in Vienna, where every journey is designed, and one in Georgia, where every journey comes to life.
Tornike
Raised between Austria and Georgia, with both cultures as a real home rather than a line of heritage. Trained in tourism in Vienna, certified as a sommelier, and drawn back to Georgia year after year: to the mountains, the vineyards, the long tables. Every Paravis journey is shaped personally, from the first conversation to the day you land.
Luka
Born and raised in Guria, the green hill country Georgians call their wild west: home of legendary horsemen, famous for its quick wit. Luka leads everything on the ground: routes, drivers, winemakers, mountain guides. He knows Georgia's history like few others, from the old kingdoms to the walls of hilltop monasteries, and he is the reason doors open that stay closed to most visitors.
Every Image Is Our Own
Every photo and every second of film across Paravis was captured on our own journeys through Georgia. No stock libraries, no borrowed material. If you see it here, we were standing there.