Tourism

The number of Russian tourists in Lithuania is on a sharp decrease, the commercial TV channel LNK reported on Saturday. According to the news broadcast, forecasts are very dim for Christmas and the New Year's Eve, periods that would normally attract large flows of Russians to Lithuania.

Lithuania's major travel agencies maintain that the spread of the Ebola virus in western Africa has not had big effect on tourist flows, while smaller agencies say they have felt travellers' concerns, which are often ungrounded.

For the last 10 years Vitalijus Milkovas has been working as a tour guide for Japanese groups - he says that visitors from Japan are most impressed by the Lithuanian nature, especially its wide horizons.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris unveiled its revamped first floor, with glass observation areas and a transparent floor that make people feel as if they're walking in the sky.

Cruise ship season ended in Klaipėda on Friday with cruise liner Astor, sailing under the flag of Bahamas, docking at the port.

This Friday in Kiev, the State Tourism Department of Lithuania (VTD) and the Lithuanian Embassy in Kiev are promoting tourism to Lithuania. Representatives of Ukrainian travel agencies that are already working with Lithuania and new ones will be taking part in the presentation.

What do foreigners who have ever stayed, lived or are currently living in Lithuania think about the country and its people? And how are Lithuanians perceived by those who have never been to Lithuania?

In the first half of this year, over 113,000 tourists from Russia came to Lithuania, which accounts for the biggest share all markets of Lithuania's inbound tourism.

More than 100 representatives of Russia's national and local media have visited Lithuania this year at the invitation from the State Tourism Department.

On 25-28 September, Lithuania will take part in one of the major international tourism exhibitions JATA Tourism EXPO Japan. A delegation headed by Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas will attend the opening ceremony of the event.

Statistics Lithuania informs that, over the first half of 2014, the number of tourists grew in accommodation establishments in every county. Compared with the first half of 2013, the number of tourists grew most in Utena County (77.8 percent), the least in Alytus County (3.2 percent).

According to the provisional data of Statistics Lithuania, in the second quarter of 2014, accommodation establishments accommodated 9.5 percent more guests than in the same period in 2013 and received 637.7 thousand tourists.

Tikrai negalima perdėti būtinybės apsilankyti Keiptaune. Visų pirma, verta turėti omenyje akiplėšišką uolėtų kalnų grandinės, kuri staigiai krenta į žėruojančią jūrą, grožį - jos šlaitai nukloti žaluma ir gležna augmenija.

The Crimean annexation by Russia has played out big for Lithuania: holidaymakers from Belarus, who usually choose Crimea for their vacation, this summer have been swarming Lithuanian resorts instead. The numbers of Belarusian tourists in Lithuania could be even higher if it were not for the lengthy ...

Lithuania’s State Tourism Department does not take responsibility for the collapse of Go Planet Travel, a tour operator that embezzled the money of nearly 1,000 customers, since the regulator’s mandate does not include monitoring credit bureau’s data about the financial situation of tourism companie...

Besides the notorious travel agency Go Planet Travel, a high risk of bankruptcy hovers above several dozens of other Lithuanian tour operators and travel agencies, the risk management solutions company Creditinfo Lithuania has warned.

Travel agency Go Planet Travel’s insolvency will affect some 900 tourists, but officials are taking steps to resolve the situation, announced the director of the Lithuanian State Tourism Department.