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Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009,
celebrates the Millennium of the first written mention of Lithuania’s name in 2009

Jul

3

The protest of Lithuanian Association of Hotels and Restaurants!

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Protest against the frustrating business decisions organized by Lithuanian hotels and restaurants „Lithuania is closed! 1000 years back.“ continues.

The night of July 5 th to 6 th, when Lithuania celebrates it‘s name millennium, from 10 pm. to 1 am. the night in hotels and restaurants will be turned off the light. In hotels lounges, restaurants, and other common facilities as in antiquity - only candles will light, and the hotel guests will be encouraged to join this campaign and turn off the lights in their rooms. In the restaurants will not play music, only classical music plays softly.

In the campaign will participate  about 300 hotels and restaurants in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Panevezys, Palanga, Druskininkai and other cities, among them - the main hotels in the capital, where will stay the king, foreign heads of state, other honourable guests who will come to
millennium festivals.

„It is regrettable that at a time when Lithuania will celebrate the millennium, we are forced to take non-traditional forms of protest, which may cause inconvenience to the foreign guests and the image of Lithuania. However, we have no other choice, because of the increase of taxes and other dark government decisions, the majority of the hotels and restaurants approach to bankruptcy, during this year hotels and restaurants has already lost about 10 thousand employees. However, the government is deaf to our arguments” - said the president of Lithuanian Association of Hotels and Restaurants!

This form of protest campaign is chosen in order to minimize the inconvenience to hotel and restaurant guests, and not frustrate the Millennium Festival. As shown June 11 and 29 days when was held warning campaign in hotels and restaurants, the majority of guests approved of this, and only Lithuanian authorities were dissatisfied.

So  please be understanding and give support to Lithuanian hotels and restaurants!

Jul

3

The most attractive tourism area 2009 - Nemunas Delta Regional Park

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Lithuanian tourism attraction area 2009 was elected Nemunas Delta Regional Park, which is the natural, cultural and sustainable region. Tourism attraction area is elected in order to realize the project „European Destinations of Excellence“ orginized by European Commission and the State Tourism Department .

For the most attractive tourism area‘s name competed eight protected areas: Gražutė (Zarasai district), Pagramantis (Taurage district), Neris (Vilnius district), Nemunas Delta (Silute district.), Nemunas hooks (Prienai district), Birzai Regional Parks, complex of Molavėnai mounds, Jukainiai geomorfologhical reservation.

This year’s best project -  Nemunas Delta Regional Park .
The scenery of the Nemunas delta, with its two main arms, Atmata and Skirvytė, and the island Rusnė, which they surround, is unique. Water is omnipresent and dominates the landscape: river arms branching out, the big lagoon lake Krokų Lanka and many other small lakes, all interwoven. You can also find ancient river beds, swamps and marshes. Particulary during the great spring flood, the regional park makes an unforgettable impression. Your eyes wander limitlessly over enormous flooded delta meadows with many rare water birds.
The delta is famous for its large number of rare varieties of breeding birds. It is also an important resting area for migratory birds. In 1993, according to the Ramsar Convention, it was added to the list of internationally important marshlands. The purpose of the regional park is to preserve this uniquely diverse and constantly changing ecosystem.

Jul

2

Take a look at Lithuania in the new Web!

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Lithuanian National Tourism Office is an official representative of the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism under The Ministry of Economy. The Office was opened in London 8th November, 2006.

Statistics show that the number of foreign tourists in Lithuania keeps growing every year, especially after Lithuania joined the EU. Lithuania is one of the most rapidly growing incoming tourism markets in the Eastern Europe.
Every year number of foreign tourists increases around 15 %.

Almost 40 000 British tourists visited Lithuania in 2007. With the help of the British travel trade and with the wide range of promotional activities being arranged by Lithuanian National Tourist Office in the UK, Lithuanian National Tourism Office is sure to look forward to many years of improvement in these figures.

The main purpose of The Office is to promote tourism potential of Lithuania, to spread the information about the country’s distintive features and to deal with tourism trade, travel writers and media.

As the only official Lithuanian Tourism representative in the UK, Office offers  a wide range of literature featuring different types of travel in Lithuania. All material is free of charge and can be collected from the Office or sent by post.
Now is created the new Web, where all of you can get useful information about Lithuania.  This electronic campaign will last 6 months, there will be 2 electronic magazines in which will be presented an attractive tourism products and innovations of Lithuania.
In this Electronics magazines will be presented not only the major cities of Lithuania, but also attractions  of Trakai, Kernave and seaside. There will be much information about the main summer events and festivals, information about the Lithuanian tourism infrastructure and the connections with the country.

So, take a look at Lithuania:
http://www.lithuaniatourism.co.uk/
http://www.lithuaniatourism.co.uk/en/summerezine/

Jul

2

Lithuanians all around the world will sing their national anthem!!!

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LITHUANIA, July 5th, 2009 - The crew of the Ambersail, a Volvo 60 class yacht, will be returning to Klaipeda, Lithuania on Sunday, July 5th at 9:00 pm (Lithuania time) at the main port after nine-month journey around the world commemorating Lithuania’s Millenium. To welcome the Ambersail home, we will sing our national anthem – not just in Klaipeda, not just in Lithuania, but throughout all the Lithuanian communities around the world at exactly the same time.

We will be the first nation in history to simultaneously declare to the rest of the world, loudly and proudly, it is 1000 years for Lithuania!

The Ambersail’s voyage – the Millenium Odyssey – marks the 1000-year anniversary of the first recorded mention of Lithuania and celebrates the renewal of cultural, economic and spiritual links between the world-wide Lithuanian diaspora and the Homeland and people of Lithuania. The Ambersail sailed from Klaipeda, Lithuania on October 5, 2008, sailing to Lithuanian communities in Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the United States, Canada and across the Atlantic back through Europe. During the voyage, 120 yachtsmen in 11 crews will have visited 26 Lithuanian communities in 20 different countries on five separate continents.

Jul

1

THE MILLENNIUM SONG CELEBRATION OF LITHUANIA BEGINS TODAY!!!

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dainu00434 The national song and dance celebration tradition has lasted for a hundred years and grew up into the most significant and largest cultural event in Lithuania. It exalts man’s creative self-expression, vitality of the national culture, and promotes artistic activity by periodically gathering amateur artistic groups of different genres and culture professionals to enormous festivals that evoke enthusiastic society’s response.
Lithuanian Song Celebration is an overall national cultural phenomenon spiritually
equal to ancient Greek Olympic Games.
Lithuanian Song Celebration exalts the creative self-expression of the human being, creative potency of artists, vitality of national culture, love to the native land and the solidarity.
The base of the succession for the tradition of the Lithuanian Song Celebration is the creative work activity of the amateur artistic groups and sustained roots of local and regional song celebrations.
The participation at the Song Celebration is prescriptive by the voluntary and the ability to learn and perform the provided repertoire perfectly.
 Lithuanian Song Celebrations of adults and school students run-up singly every four years.
On the 7th of November 2003 UNESCO proclaimed the tradicion of the Song and Dance Celabration in Lithuania Latvia and Estonia as Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

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Jun

30

New Lithuanian airline company Star 1 Airlines is starting.

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New Lithuanian airline company Star 1 Airlines is starting flights from Vilnius to London (Stansted), Dublin and Girona (Barcelona).

The airline will operate 4 weekly flights to London starting from 3rd July, 3 weekly flights to Dublin, from 4th July and 2 weekly flights to Girona (Barcelona) from 5th July.

You can make reservations:

Jun

30

Should I fly with new airline Star1?

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From Times Online
June 22, 2009
Times Online

Should I fly with new airline Star1?

Jim McGeever wonders whether a new airline with only one plane to Vilnius is a risky booking

Richard Green

Since FlyLAL airlines went bankrupt, it has got harder to find a good fare from London to Vilnius, Lithuania. I see there is a new airline starting the route called Star1, but they only have one plane. Should I risk booking with them? - Jim McGeever, London

Sunday Times travel expert Richard Green responds: I think it was Richard Branson who quipped at the time of Virgin Atlantic’s maiden flight - when he too had just the one plane - that the airline would either have the best airline safety record in the world, or the worst. He had a point of course, but all worked out well for Virgin, which now has almost 40 aircraft and an exemplary safety record.

Since Lithuania’s national carrier, FlyLAL went bust in January; there has been a rush to fill the gap on the popular route from London to Vilnius. First past the post is indeed Vilnius-based Star1 Airlines (www.star1.aero), which has just started flying four times a week from Gatwick to Vilnius and charges from £120 return. Air Lingus (www.aerlingus.com), which already flies from Dublin to Vilnius, is next, and plans non-stop flights from Gatwick to Vilnius from September 10th, with fares from £92 return. However, if you are looking to book with any airline that has just one or two aircraft to its name, it is worthwhile buying some peace of mind by finding out what kind of planes they are (you don’t want aging Russian-made turboprops), how old they are (less than 15 years is preferable), and if it’s a second hand fleet, then one careful owner like Lufthansa is better than it having been pass-the-parcelled from one West African state to the next.

In the case of Star1, it is kicking off with one second hand Boeing, a 737-700 series. The type first flew in 1998 and Star1’s particular plane started its career with a Colombian low cost airline called Aeries (www.aires.aero) and then spent seven years with the German charter airline, Hamburg International (www.hamburg-international.de). So far so good – and incidentally Virgin’s first jumbo came from Aerolineas Argrentinas.

It’s also useful to know if the airline is part of a larger airline group, for example the new offshoot of a large well-established airline, and Star1 it isn’t. Instead it is the new name of a two-year-old airline that operated smaller planes on charter routes. Still, even that is better than no experience, but it does mean that it will be susceptible to the curse of the tiny airline, in that if there is a technical problem, then there’s no slack in the fleet, in fact there is no ‘fleet’, and a delay can run and run without a spare aircraft to step in with. Star1 says that it is expecting another Boeing to join the fleet by the end of the summer, but that won’t make a lot of difference.

The decision as to whether you should fly Star1 depends on your attitude to risk, not safety of course, which should be fine with Star1, but to delays and the like. If you are travelling alone and have the time, I’d say it is well worth trying out Star1, with the family on a weekend break, perhaps not. And don’t forget that if none of us try out these new airlines in their early days, it means a vote for keeping the status quo - Ryanair and Easyjet in total control of the low cost skies.


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