Tourism

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.

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 Latv...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Lithuania is promoting to Israeli tourists as the ‘Jerusalem of the North” as this week Lithuania’s tourist authorities presented the country as a tourist destination at the International Tourism Fair IMTM in Israel.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A treetop walkway in Anykščiai is one of five finalists for the UN World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) awards for innovation in tourism.

No Lithuanian tourists were hurt during an attack on an Egyptian hotel in Hurghada last Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

После массовых нападений на женщин в Кельне в новогоднюю ночь туристические организации говорят о первых отказах туристов посещать этот немецкий город. Так, по словам главы Köln-Tourismus GmbH Йозефа Зоммера, группа туристов с Рудных гор (на границе с Чехией) отменила свою поездку в Кельн, запланиро...

Some 150 Lithuanian tourists got stuck in an airport in the Georgian city of Kutaisi after an airline cancelled its flight on Monday due to adverse weather conditions.

2015 posed a great challenge to the Baltic tourism sector: geopolitical tensions and the Russian economy's downturn have prevented many Russian tourists from visiting the Baltics.