"Website traffic report confirms that recent year was a special year for Lithuania and Vilnius. Successful events of the EU Presidency, 'Air Lituanica' flights debuted in June and reports on Vilnius on the worlds' largest news sites - all this influenced increase of website trafficking and city promotion", said Jolanta Beniuliene, Director of the Vilnius Tourist Information Center.
Tourist website statistics shows that the number of visitors increased significantly in the second half of the year. Christmas in Vilnius, tours, television tower, sightseeing are the most popular search terms. Neighbouring countries, having quick and convenient connections with Vilnius, lead the statistics of foreign web visitors. First positions among ten foreign countries are taken by Russia, Poland, Belarus, the United Kingdom, and Germany. People from 187 countries persons from the farthest countries among them visited the site www.vilnius-tourism.lt.
www.vilnius-events.lt is the only website on events, where information is presented in the Lithuanian, English and Russian languages which makes it also useful for foreign guests. In the year 2013, inhabitants of Belarus, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Norway were among the most interested in events in Vilnius.
Vilnius is obviously becoming more and more known as a city of cultural tourism. Planning their vacation, foreigners are looking for information on dates of upcoming festivals, traditional events. Taking this into account, the major events of 2014 in the Capital, Trakai and Kernave are already published on the event site, while Vilnius Tourist Information Center is distributing a free printed calendar of events of 2014.
