Tourism

  • Freetime

Palanga kicking off summer season with music and fun

As always, much of the chit-chats ahead of Palanga resort’s summer season kick-off this weekend were on the weather during…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania kicks off rural tourism season

Some six hundred rural homesteads across Lithuania will welcome tourists from the country and abroad willing to spend their holidays…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Kaunas to give €500k to Wizz Air to bring in more tourists

The municipality of Kaunas decided on Tuesday to give €500,000 to the low-cost airline Wizz Air to help it operate…

9 years ago
  • Economy

World Heritage tourist route to unify Baltic countries

The representatives of seven Baltic countries have gathered in Vilnius to create a new unified tourism project to link all…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuanian hotels push for regulation of Airbnb-type accommodation

Bed-and-breakfast services and short-term accommodation rentals to tourists in Lithuania are under-regulated, which skews national tourism statistics and fails to…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Sneak peek of War & Peace trails in Lithuania

Fans of the BBC’s War & Peace series are in luck. They can now follow a trail through Vilnius that…

9 years ago
  • Freetime

Baltic states to use their mutual indistinguishability to their advantage

Lithuania's, Latvia's and Estonia's tourism bodies signed an agreement on Friday to swap their marketing trademarks in order to underline…

9 years ago
  • Culture

War and Peace tourist trail launches in Vilnius

A new War and Peace tourist trail will be launched in Vilnius today taking tourists on a tour of where…

9 years ago
  • Economy

British Post Office names Vilnius second cheapest city to visit in Europe

Vilnius was chosen as the second cheapest city in Europe to visit by the British Post Office Travel Money service.…

9 years ago
  • Economy

EU visitors fill gap left by fall off in Russian tourists to Lithuania

Despite a dramatic drop of one-third in the number of tourists from Russia visiting Lithuania, the country still attracted 2.3%…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Vilnius tourists hit million mark boosted by Japanese influx

Vilnius was visited by almost a million tourists last year, up 5% on 2014, according to the latest figures from…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

‘Pillow tax’ proposed for Vilnius to promote city tourism

The Social Democratic Party group on Vilnius Municipality Board have put forward a proposal to collect a pillow tax –…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania sets eyes on Japanese and American tourists

Lithuania expects to see the rapid growth of its tourism sector continue well into 2016. With a Lithuanian delegation travelling…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuania advertised as ‘Jerusalem of the North’ on streets of Israel

Lithuania is promoting to Israeli tourists as the ‘Jerusalem of the North” as this week Lithuania’s tourist authorities presented the…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Marriott to invest in new hotel in Palanga

A new Marriott Hotel is to be built in the centre of Palanga by the end of 2018, with the…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuanian-Indonesian partnership could lift both economies

Building a closer relationship between Lithuania and Indonesia through partnerships across education, science, business and tourism could boost both economies.…

9 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Lithuanians travel least of Baltic nations

Lithuanians are the least travelling people of the Baltic nations, a survey shows. [...]

9 years ago
  • Economy

Lithuania gives away €1m to airlines

The Lithuanian government has distributed €1 million among foreign airlines in order to add new routes and make the country…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Lithuanian treetop walk receives UNWTO tourism innovation award

A treetop walkway in Anykščiai has been awarded as one of the most innovative tourism projects at the UN World…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Tourist boost kicks off from BBC’s ‘War and Peace’ in Lithuania

The filming of War and Peace is already generating huge interest in visitor trips to Lithuania, with leading newspapers in…

9 years ago