Lithuania in figures (edition 2023)

Tourism

 

 

 

 

The chapter provides statistical information on accommodation services as well as tour operators and travel agencies. It presents how the number of tourists has changed, the peculiarities of their travel, from which countries most tourists arrived to Lithuania.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2022, travel agencies and tour operators provided services for 103.4 thousand foreigners (of whom 82.2 thousand were sameday visitors) and 507.8 thousand Lithuanian residents (of whom 14.3 thousand were sameday visitors). Compared to 2021, the number of foreign tourists whose trips to Lithuania were organised by travel agencies or tour operators increased 5.6 times, the number of Lithuanian residents’ trips abroad increased 2.2 times.

Most of the foreigners using the services of travel agencies or tour operators arrived from Germany (43.7 per cent), France (10.4 per cent), and Israel (7.8 per cent). As regards Lithuanians’ trips with overnight stays, they travelled the most to Turkey (37.3 per cent), Greece (12.6 per cent), and Egypt (9.6 per cent).

 

 

Travel agencies and tour operators

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The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

 

Inbound and outbound tourism
Thousand

 

Inbound tourism

Outbound tourism

Number of tourists

Number of guest-nights

One-day visitors

Number of tourists

Number of guest-nights

One-day visitors

2022

21.3

108.7

82.2

493.6

3,139.6

14.3

2021

8.5

40.2

9.9

233.7

1,577.8

1.8

2020

6.2

23.6

0.9

67.6

451.5

6.9

2019

132.2

579.2

50.7

470.7

3,133.7

31.2

2018

122.0

548.7

71.8

466.2

3,181.7

34.1

The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

 

 

In 2022, Lithuanian accommodation establishments received 3.8 million tourists, or 1.5 times more than in 2021.

Foreigners accounted for 30.1 per cent of the total number of the tourists accommodated (2.3 times more than in 2021). The majority of foreign tourists were from Latvia – 131.8 thousand (11.5 per cent), Poland – 117.6 thousand (10.2 per cent), Ukraine – 101.8 thousand (8.9 per cent), Germany – 99.0 thousand (8.6 per cent), Belarus – 98.3 thousand (8.5 per cent).

 

 

Accommodation establishments

 

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Total number of accommodation establishments

3,616

3,754

3,352

4,263

4,580

Number of rooms

35,188

40,941

41,733

48,604

41,885

Number of beds

89,813

108,488

107,750

129,924

110,037

Number of tourists, thous.

3,620.4

4,037.7

2,126.7

2,468.0

3,825.2

number of foreigners

1,744.7

1,938.0

511.6

505.4

1,149.5

Nights spent, thous.

8,091.6

8,946.8

4,931.8

5,542.5

8,073.1

by foreigners

3,736.9

4,142.5

1,119.6

1,182.8

2,614.4

The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators

 

Amounts paid for tourism services
EUR million

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The latest and detailed data are available in the Database of Indicators


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