Number of tourists in accommodation establishments by city/county, IV quarter 2011

According to the provisional date of Statistics Lithuania, in IV quarter 2011, accommodation establishments received 376 thousand tourists, or 15.7 per cent by more than in the same quarter of 2010. The number of tourists from EU countries increased by 11.3 per cent, Lithuanian residents - 14.3 per cent, tourists from non-EU countries - by 24.8 per cent.

Most tourists came from:

•    Russia - 35.1 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 26.5 thousand),
•    Belarus - 24.8 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 22.8 thousand),
•    Poland - 22.6 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 22.9 thousand),
•    Latvia - 17.3 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 14.3 thousand),
•    Germany - 15.1 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 12 thousand),
•    United Kingdom - 7.6 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 8.3 thousand),
•    Estonia - 7.1 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 6.9 thousand),
•    Finland - 6.7 thousand (in IV quarter 2010, 7.6 thousand).

In the last quarter of 2011, a quarter of tourists stayed in accommodation in the resort towns of establishments:

•    Druskininkai received 64 thousand tourists, Which is by 20.2 per cent more than in IV quarter 2010,
•    Palanga - 26 thousand tourists (29.8 per cent by more )
•    Birštonas - 6.4 thousand (by 1 per cent more), Neringa - 2.5 thousand tourists (by 1.3 per cent more).