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Rules for registering tourists in Lithuania are set to change as of 1 July this year. Guests arriving in the country will need to be registered in the National Tourism Information System, a task for each and every accommodation provider, Delfi news website reports.

The European Travel Commission (ETC) held its General Meeting in Kaunas and Kaunas district, Lithuania on Wednesday and Thursday, 22-23 May. This meeting was dedicated to building resilience and developing a framework for crisis management in tourism, the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation said ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain confirmed on Friday that three Spanish tourists were killed in a shooting in Afghanistan. Three Afghans were killed in the same incident while four other foreigners were wounded.

Go Vilnius on Thursday presented a new advertising campaign for the city, which is expected to boost the number of tourist arrivals from the UK and Germany by 25 percent.

Data of Go Vilnius, tourism and business development agency of Vilnius city, shows that in 2023 Lithuania’s capital was visited by nearly 1.2 million guests. The majority of visitors were from Europe and the United States.

Novaturas says it is the first major tour operator in the Baltic States to offer customers the option of selecting hotels based on sustainability labeling. In addition to location, room type, and other amenities, customers can now choose accommodations that operate responsibly and focus on managing ...

Lithuania is taking steps to fix its decision on the refund deadline for tourists affected by the coronavirus crisis to avoid EU sanctions. Under the plans, people would recover their money within 14 days, instead of the existing 90 days, as the Lithuanian Seimas decided last spring.

Lithuania will seek to promote its attractiveness for tourists in several markets, including Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and China.

Lithuania's Economy and Innovation Ministry is preparing a new measure to compensate the costs of every third night spent by tourists in Lithuania to promote inbound tourism after the coronavirus pandemic.

Vilnius came in 7th place beating many other European tourist hotspots.

In late January, the latest Lithuanian additions to the European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN) network were announced. The theme for EDEN 2019 was Wellness, and Paliesius Manor with its physical therapy clinic, located in the district of Ignalina, was selected the overall winner. The panel of ex...

In 2019, the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation in the European Union (EU) is expected to have reached more than 3.2 billion, up by 2.4% compared with 2018. Since 2009, there has been a steady increase in the number of nights spent in tourist accommodation establishments in the EU, nota...

Lithuania's northern region of Siauliai has created an app for tourists, Siauliai Tourism Information Center announced on Friday.

“It was delightful to find nature so close to the city; it’s not something you could take for granted nowadays,” said a tourist from Finland.

Lithuanian tourists spent 489.8 million euros in the first half of this year during foreign trips, up 2.2 percent from the same period last year.

A total of 831,000 foreign arrivals – a spike of 9.25% – was recorded in H1 2019, the highest in the past five years. The number of domestic and foreign tourists who travelled in Lithuania with at least one overnight totalled 1,750,000 or 11.30% more than in the same period in 2018, informs "Travel ...

Foreign tourists and other foreign travelers spent 1.271 billion euros in Lithuania last year, up 9 percent from 1.169 billion in 2017, the latest figures from Lithuania's statistics office, Statistics Lithuania, show.

While Lithuanian weather does not let people enjoy the sun and the heat during the first months of a year people choose to go for holidays in more warm regions. One of the most popular place for Lithuanians is Turkey.

375.6 thousand or more by 15.4 per cent. The growth in the number of domestic tourists in the quarter I of 2019 was the greatest in the last 5 years, informs Lithuania Travel.

Lithuanian tourists spent 185.6 million euros abroad in the first quarter of this year, up 10.7 percent year-on-year, the latest figures from the Statistics Lithuania have revealed.