- COVID-19-hit Vilnius sees free fall in tourism, 40,000 hospitality workers in limbo
The unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic has gripped tourism sector, crippling hospitality and tourism industries.
- Analysis: Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel to double cargo, passenger carriage
According to calculations by the FinEst Link project investigating the feasibility of the planned Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel, the annual number of passengers between the cities will increase to 23 million people by 2050, while cargo carriage is to grow to 8.4 million tons per year by the same year.
- Latvia needs more international hotel chain names
Janis Pinnis, the President of Latvia’s Association of Hotels & Restaurants, highlighted some of the current trends in the Latvian hotel and restaurant market in recent interview with The Baltic Times.
- Riga continues to attract more foreign investment and hotel chains
Latvia’s capital city continues to attract more tourists coming to check out its beautiful Old Town, and it is also now a popular destination for conferences and events.
- Three daredevil Riga residents look for Latvians in deep Siberia
Three Riga natives, who call themselves “naive travellers”, hit the road in mid-November in a very hostile environment, literally, in Siberia, where they visited a number of Latvian communities scattered all the way to Krasnoyarsk in Southern Siberia.
- The culinary and cosy delights of Tallinn
When I exited my hotel for the first time in Old Town Tallinn, I almost immediately encountered a man wearing a suit of armour, lumbering up the street in my direction.