EU – Baltic States, Forum, Good for Business, Latvia

In total more than 300 events from 28 countries of the world participated in the festival. The goal of Latvian Senses project was to address and present the offer of Riga-Gauja as the European Region of Gastronomy and its concept Wild at Palate to the Finnish, Estonian and Lithuania media, tourism sector representatives and opinion leaders, as well as promote the region as an appropriate gastronomy tourism destination.

The top five of the culture events category were projects from Latvia, Spain, France, Germany and Russia. The best project was the centenary event of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain.

Among participants in the contest there were such popular brands as Google, BMW, Audi, Nestle, Huawei, Martini, Lego, Oriflame and others. International jury of 28 experts awarded BEA World Festival projects in 20 categories.

The Latvian gastronomy event was organized by the Riga Tourism Development Bureau, Sigulda county council, Cesis city council and Valmiera city council in cooperation with the Tourism Department of the Latvian Investments and Development Agency. The concept of the event was developed by Skudras Metropole.