Vilnius looks really nice. I am always amazed how fast this city is changing. Now it looks like a normal European Union capital. It is especially amazing if you take into consideration how it looked 18 years ago. The only problem I think is that not many people from countries like Germany, France or UK know how beautiful this city is, so you don't have that many tourists as you could have, am I right?
BTW, I was always wondering. Do you have many people form Belarussia? I mean people from this country who come there for shopping, studying etc. Because when I was in Lithuania last time I didn't noticed nearly any, and for example in south-east Poland there are a lot of people from Ukraine, in shops, swimming pools etc.
Why do not know? I think, that already not bad know. In Vilnius many tourists from the Western Europe. In this year Vilnius - the cultural capital of Europe and tourists will be even more.
Official statistics:
In 2007, Vilnius was visited by 1 533 000 foreign tourists. As compared to 2006, the number of tourists in the capital grew by 13 per cents.
In 2007, Vilnius hotels and guest houses accommodated 570 374 guests, it is 13 per cents more than in 2006.
76,6 per cents of all guests who came to Vilnius hotels and guest houses were foreigners, most of whom (17,8 %) were Poles. Germans took the second place - 10,5 %. Guests from United Kingdom took the fird place - 6,7 %.The fourth place took guests from Russia – 6,4 %. Guests from Latvia constituted 5,9 % and took the fifth place.
Countries, from which Vilnius hotels and guests houses received the biggest number of guests in 2007, were the following:
Poland – 78 041 (+16,73 per cents more than in 2006)
Germany – 45 989 (-15,33 per cents)
United Kingdom – 29 097 (-4,34 per cents)
Russia – 27 788 (+20,01 per cents)
Latvia – 27 338 (+20,92 per cents)
Finland – 25 864 (+2,97 per cents)
Belarus – 22 639 (+19,15 per cents)
Italy – 18 955 (-0,30 per cents)
Norway – 15 972 (+25,80 per cents)
Estonia – 7087 (12,1 per cent more)
USA – 15 546 (+3,58 per cents)
In 2007 rooms occupation in Vilnius hotels reached 55,4 per cents. Meanwhile, in 2006, the indicator was 52,8 per cents, 2005 – 51,6 per cents.
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