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Vilnius posts 7.5% growth in Q1 tourist arrivals

BC, Vilnius, 28.05.2018.Print version
Vilnius posted a 7.5% year-on-year growth in tourist arrivals for the first quarter of 2018, with the number of German visitors alone soaring by over 40%, informs LETA/BNS.

The number of tourists from neighboring Latvia, Poland and Estonia rose by around 15%, the capital's tourism and investment promotion agency Go Vilnius said.


According to figures from Statistics Lithuania, a total of 209,500 visitors stayed at Vilnius' hotels and other accommodation establishments in the first quarter, with the number of overnight stays up by 4.3% year-on-year to 389,500 stays.  


The number of foreign guests increased by 6.4% to 161,000, accounting for almost four-fifths of all guests. The largest numbers of tourists came from Belarus, Russia, Latvia, Poland and Germany.


Jolanta Beniuliene, head of tourism and convention bureau at Go Vilnius, says that the agency's tourism marketing efforts and cooperation with travel guide book publishers Lonely Planet and Expedia and with the media in foreign countries, especially Latvia, Poland, Germany and France, have yield results.  






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