The tourism production grew by 2.2% and totalled EUR 2 billion 22 thousand at current prices. In 2016, 45.8 thousand persons worked in this sector, i. e. 4.7% of all employees in the private sector.
In 2016, against 2015, the number of domestic overnight trips of Lithuanian residents decreased by 4.1%, while the number of trips of foreigners grew by 10.8%. The number of same-day trips of foreign visitors increased by 1.6%. In 2016, short same-day trips of Lithuanian residents within the country were more often than in 2015 – the number thereof, as the number of same-day trips of foreign visitors, increased by 1.6%.
In 2016, average expenditure per trip of a foreign tourist in Lithuania totalled EUR 351, that of a domestic tourist – EUR 67.
