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Foreigners Accepted Invitation to Lithuania: Number of Tourists Rose Even During Off Season
2018-06-12
Promotion of Lithuanian tourism in London Underground stations, outdoor advertising in Riga and Tallinn, campaigns in UK travel magazines, Israeli daily newspapers, advertising campaign at Warsaw Airport, active positioning of Lithuania as an attractive destination for tourism in the digital environment: advertising campaign in online travel platform TripAdvisor, travel bookings in the Italian site of eDreams portal, as well as in one of the largest travel portals OPODO in Germany... State Department of Tourism is already recording positive results of the campaigns carried out in the priority markets of incoming tourism: according to the statistics of the first quarter of accommodation establishments, even before the start of the tourist season, i.e. in January, February and March, the number of foreign tourists grew by 7.7 percent. In total, more than a quarter of a million (267.9 thousand) foreigners traveled in Lithuania.
Lonely Planet picks Vilnius as one of the top places in Europe to visit this summer
2018-05-22
Lonely Planet today revealed that Vilnius have been selected by leading travel authority Lonely Planet as one of its top ten places to visit in Europe this year, ranked alongside Italy’s food heartland of Emilia-Romagna, and the Northern Spanish region of Cantabria.
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State Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Economy carries out tourism projects, financed from EU structural funds. On regular basis international and national tourism tendencies are analysed and Lithuanian tourism statistics is provided by request.