Tourism

Lithuanians are no longer satisfied with spending their summers stretched on a beach or picking berries. Nor are tourists happy with merely strolling along the Medieval streets of Vilnius and taking pictures. A budding industry is there to offer them a variety of summer activities. To read this arti...

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Throughout the summer, young people in bright green jackets are offering assistance and maps to tourists on the streets of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The opening of new air routes connecting Palanga with Minsk and Kiev will not create a big influx of foreign tourists to the Lithuanian resort town, according to hoteliers and tourist businesses. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Foreign visitors in Lithuania are most impressed by the country's capital city Vilnius, by local food and the Lithuanian nature, according to a survey. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The open-air museum in Rumšiškės, which has provided a number of backdrops for the BBC's six-part costume epic War and Peace, is offering tourists and fans of the series a chance to visit some of the drama's shooting locations.

This summer, the Tourism Department will be accompanied by police officers to identify whether Lithuania's tour guides are working legally.

As food prices rise and client numbers drop, starting a business is risky, say businessmen in Nida. However, several new cafes or restaurants open their doors in Neringa each year.

Spending a night at a hotel in Lithuania's seaside or lakeside resorts has become as expensive as booking accommodation in Italy or Greece.

Alminas Mačiulis, the government's chancellor, congratulated Lithuania on the start of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation's (UNWTO) European Commission meeting. At last year's meeting in Columbia, Lithuania, Switzerland and Montenegro were chosen for a four-year term as the leaders of thi...

A series of events on Saturday invited people of Vilnius to get to know the Czech Republic during the Czech Day in the City Hall.

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.

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.

The municipality of Kaunas decided on Tuesday to give €500,000 to the low-cost airline Wizz Air to help it operate more flights from Lithuania's second city.

The representatives of seven Baltic countries have gathered in Vilnius to create a new unified tourism project to link all the UNESCO World Heritage sites across the Baltic.

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.