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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All travel enthusiasts are welcome to acquaint themselves with the best and most exciting tourism offers at the biggest in the Baltics travel market – the 19^th International Travel Trade Fair “Balttour 2012” – to be held at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre in Riga, Latvia, 10–12 February.

While everyone is expecting the snow and the weather is a bit dark why not to treat yourself with a relaxing spa package? We have quite a list with different SPA packages at the wonderful country hotels. Some offers are for a day or two and will complement your visit to Riga, Tallinn or Vilnius. Others are one week long and can make a holiday on its own.

We'll be pleased to send you the options! Please contact with your dates and wishes!  E-mail: lauku@celotajs.lv

New hiking tour at the Gauja National Park is now available for bookings for the next season. It features the best trails and attractions within the ancient Gauja River valley with many tributaries and deep ravines with massive sandstone cliffs from the Devonian period. The tour passes also cultural monuments of pan-Baltic importance – the Turaida Museum Reserve, scenic Sigulda Castle ruins, the medieval old town of Cesis with its mighty castle ruins and St John’s Church, the reconstructed lake settlement at Āraiši as well as the wooden baroque manor - Ungurmuiža Manor.

Electronically provided GPS route.

Follow the link: http://www.celotajs.lv/cont/tour/tours/walking_gnp_en.html

This guidebook is meant to offer practical advice and information.  Please bring it along with you when travelling.  We have written the book for people who like to observe wild nature, learn about various cultural and historical monuments, or be active tourists who will visit national parks on foot, on a bicycle, by boat or on skis.  We have not forgotten about those of you who want to drive a car, either.  The guidebook offers information about the most important environmental, cultural and historical values of Latvia’s four national parks, also listing the most interesting tourist destinations.  Maps are included, and GPS co-ordinates are offered for the most interesting objects so as to make it easier for you to find your way around the parks.

We have noticed that Japanese guests find Latvian rural tourism attractive. Our nature, wide landscapes, authentic homesteads, live traditions, mushrooming, autumn colours are just few of the things that fascinate travellers from Japan. Therefore, we have created an attractive promotional brochure in Japanese language.

The brochure will be distributed in the Latvian stand in the largest travel fair JATA Travel Showcase in Tokyo, September 29 – October 2 (the fair attracts the audience of 100 000 tourism professionals and general public) http://www.jata-jts.jp/contents/index/en/ .

Lauku ceļotājs will also take part in receiving the Japanese tour operator fam trip in Latvia which is organised by the State Tourism Development Agency. We shall show rural farmsteads, treat our guests with natural herb teas, home-made black bread, honey and the traditional mushroom sauce. Work meetings with Japanese tourism professionals will take place during the fam trip.

Japanese language information will be put in the home page of Lauku ceļotājs and in social network sites. This way, we shall address the Japanese market directly and the travellers will find us in web search engines.

Summer Newsletter with active tours and accomodation ideas for enjoying the summer time. See the Newsletter here.

A new catalogue is published, where you will find an information about 338 accommodation sites in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. More about the catalogue and other publications read here.