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 the festival. […]
Tourism
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 in the peaceful environment of the Lithuanian countryside. […]
Economy
Economy
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 ensure proper safety and sanitary standards, according to the country’s hotel association. […]
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 takes them by some of the key shooting locations. […]
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 friendship among the three Baltic nations. As of May, Lithuania will use the adapted Estonian logo, Estonia will promote itself with Latvia’s former logo and Latvia will use the logo that used to represent Lithuania. […]
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 the BBC’s War and Peace series was filmed in Lithuania’s capital. […]
Economy
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% more foreign tourists than last year with visits from other European Union citizens up 11.9% in 2015. […]
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 the Department of Statistics. […]
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 – a €1 charge for hotel accommodation – which would begin to take effect from 2017. […]
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 to the US later this month to promote the country, the award from the UNTWO for the Treetop Walking Path in Anykšciai, and the buzz that the Kaunas-set Japanese WWII film Persona Non Grata has created, Lithuania’s tourism sector is finding its way into the spotlights all over the world. […]
CORPORATE
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 international hotel group making a major investment in the Lithuanian resort town. […]
CORPORATE
Uncategorized
Lithuanians travel least of Baltic nations
Lithuanians are the least travelling people of the Baltic nations, a survey shows. […]
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 more accessible by air. While state subsidies are a common measure of promoting incoming tourism, critics say additional flights will mostly serve Lithuanian migrant workers. […]
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 Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) 12th Excellence and Innovation in Tourism awards. […]
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 the UK running features on how tourists can come to experience some of the locations from the blockbuster series. […]