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Friday, 19.04.2024, 20:38
Vilnius posts 8% growth to 0.53 mln in H1 tourist numbers
According to figures from Statistics Lithuania, a total
of 536,900 visitors stayed at Vilnius' hotels and other accommodation establishments
in the first half. The number of foreign guests rose by 6.2 % y-o-y to 429,700, or 80% of the total number.
The biggest numbers of tourists came from Belarus, Poland,
Russia, Germany and Latvia.
The largest single increase was in the number of German
visitors (up by 33 %), followed by British tourists (20.3%), Russians (12.9%),
Latvians (12.1%) and Poles (12.1%). The number of visitors from Finland rose by
6.1% and that of Italian travelers was up by 5.9%.
However, the number of tourists from Belarus fell by 13.8%
and that from the US edged down by 0.22%.
There were 70 hotels with around 5,600 rooms in total in
Vilnius in late June, with their average occupancy rate at 62.9%.