With EUR 454,4 spent on average during one stay in Lithuania, tourists from Japan are among the top twenty foreign tourists spending the most in our country. The average length of stay for Japanese people is 1,5 nights. In order to extend it and attract as many Japanese as possible, Lithuania together with Latvija and Estonia is holding a series of tourism opportunity presentation events in Japan for the third time. first event took place today, July 11, in Fukuoka, and the second on July 12. In Osaka, the last one is July 13. in Tokyo.
"Vilnius old town and traces of C. Sugihara Beautiful for tourists from Japan, there is and will be the most important reason to visit our country. But they are more and more interested in the regions of Lithuania - especially the seaside, spas, rural tourism. We have noticed an increase in the number of individual Japanese travelers who are interested in niche tourism opportunities such as bird watching and gastronomic tourism. Therefore, in the series of events presenting the tourism opportunities of the Baltic States, we will focus on the country's regions", asserts Olga Gončarova, head of the Inbound Tourism Sub-section of the State Tourism Department, who coordinates tourism marketing in the Japanese market.