Latvia wants to bring tourists to its regions

Bringing tourists to Latvia’s regions will be one of the priorities of the government’s Tourism Development Agency (TAVA) next year. Inese Sirava, TAVA’s senior specialist for product development, said at the annual Latvian Tourism Forum that the Latvian capital Riga was well-known in the foreign markets. Riga was in the focus of very many promotional activities while Latvia’s regions were sometimes neglected. ‘The activities of Riga as the European Capital of Culture launched this year have to be continued also next year’, Sirava said, explaining that the activities in 2014 could serve as a stepping stone for further increase of cultural tourism in Latvia in 2015…READ MORE.