Russian tourists interested in Lithuania

Lithuanian representatives will participate in the Intourmarket exhibition and hold a tourism business conference in Lithuania’s Embassy in Russia. Lithuania will also present its tourism possibilities in the international tourism exhibition MITT that starts on Wednesday. Russians are interested in Lithuanian resorts, sanatoriums, cultural and educational tourism. Lithuanian accommodation institutions received 43,400 guests from Russia last year. 42,910 tourists from Russia stayed in Lithuanian hotels and guesthouses over the nine months of 2006, a rise of 13.8 percent since the same period in 2005. [ Baltic Stand By ]