On 6–8 February 2014, Riga will host the "Balttour" forum – the opening event of the leading travel trade fair in the Baltics, "Balttour 2014" – which will be attended by more than 350 tourism professionals from more than 15 European and Central Asian countries.

To promote countryside travelling and to give a presentation of what a visitor would experience and enjoy in the countryside we have produced 7 new videos http://www.celotajs.lv/cont/about/video_en.html. Each one is about half a minute story about a particular topic: seasons of a year, open farms and craft shops, Latvian symbols, etc. The videos are presented in our web site, social networks, and they will be demonstrated in rural tourism promotional events.

On 5th June in Brussels, the president of the Latvian Countryside Association "Lauku Celotājs", Asnāte Ziemele received an award Best Life-Environment Project for POLPROP-NATURA  project in EU LIFE programme. The project took place in the SlītereNational Park as a demo territory from 2009-2012. "Lauku Ceļotājs" executed the project together with the people and organizations of Slītere. The sustainable tourism development model was created by attracting local entrepreneurs, inhabitants, local authorities and administration of SlītereNational Park. This experience was used for making proposals for environmental protection and tourism development policy. 

„Lauku ceļotājs” participate in Project „AcTour: Active Tourism for Sustainable Development” where partners from Spain, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Latvia intends to transfer an innovative, tchnology-enhanced and job-related Training Guide and Curriculum on Active Tourism as a new professional profile for European rural regions. Project results will be available here http://www.activetourism.org/

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The  4th European Congress on Rural Tourism, organised jointly by EuroGites and our Romanian partners of ANTREC, is now officially launched to take place in Romania, October 7-10, 2012. Detailed programme here. Follow program updates in the congress web site: www.europeanrtcongress.org 

Please fill in a questionnaire and help us to create a new rural tourism product oriented on local heritage and people. The respondents will take part in the lottery. The main award is gift card of EUR 500 for the accommodation in the Baltic States. Questionnaire "Local heritae in rural tourism" is in English, German and Russian here

im Anhang finden Sie den aktuellen Newsletter von Baltic Country Holidays. Diesmal aktuell:

• Kanu Fahren im Frühlingshochwasser - ein besonderes Erlebnis.
• Die neusten Übernachtungsinfos aus den baltischen Ländern.

Neue Routen für die nächtste Saison:

• Tour durch die baltischen Nationalparks
• Kanufahrten in Kurland
• Vogelbeobachtung im Frühjahr
• Urlaub auf dem Lande in den östlichen Teilen Lettlands und Litauens.

Neue Veröffentlichungen.

Willkommen auf unserem Stand auf der ITB 2012.

Zum Herunterladen: http://www.celotajs.lv/cont/tour/newsletters/2012_Spring_de.pdf

Von 7 bis 11 März 2012 nehmen wir auf der ITB in Berlin teil. Wir freuen uns Sie am lettischen Stand in Halle 18 / Nr 126A begrüßen zu dürfen! Möchten Sie einen Termin!?

Kontaktieren Sie uns bitte per e-Mail: inese@celotajs.lv. Willkommen!

Together with partners from Spain, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Sweden, we are working on a new training material on employment opportunities in rural areas. The new fields of employment are organic farming, fungi, chestnut tree growing, active tourism, interpretation in rural areas, renewable energies, professional caregivers. Project results will be accessible from www.aktos.org.

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