LATVIA TURISMI KASVAA VAUHDILLA

The number of visitors in hotels and other accommodation establishments in Q2 of this year comprised 471.2 thousand people, which is 10.5% more than in the same period of the last year.

In total there were 8.6% more visitors in the 1st half of 2013 than in the same period of the previous year. Of these 69.7% were foreign tourists and 30.3% – residents of Latvia. Similar breakdown of visitors was also in the previous quarters. Increase in the number of foreign visitors comprised 12.3%, but in the number of Latvian travellers – 6.5% if compared to Q2 of the previous year, according to data of the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia.