Latvia Travel News

DO destination in Latvia has scrapped a 500,000 advertising campaign after it was mis-translated. The slogan was meant to read 'Riga city: easy to go, hard to leave!' but embarrassed tourist chiefs pulled the campaign when it was translated to 'Riga city: easy to go, hard to live!' The adverts were supposed to promote Riga as a cultural capital to ...

View a slideshow of images from Latvia, with photographs by Akim Aginsky and captions by Kristina Rizga.

The following is a press release from "Eurolines Lux Express": Despite the reduction of economic development leading passenger carrier in Baltic States "Eurolines Lux Express" plans to invest 1.15 million euro to expand and modernize the company's operations.

The following is a press release from the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia: The Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia invite you to an Executive Industrial Policy Seminar Thursday, November 5, 2009 09:00 - " 19:00 The initiative behind the Executive Industrial Policy Seminar comes from Members of the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia ...

The following is a press release from the U.S. Embassy in Riga: Riga, October 23, 2009.

Ainars Slesers earned the nickname "the human bulldozer" during a controversial stint as Latvia's minister of transport from 2004 to 2009.

The following is a press release from "Grand Palace Hotel": The SchlA ssle Hotel Group is delighted to announce that the Grand Palace Hotel in Riga once again is the winner of the prestigious World Travel Award.

The following is a press release from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga: The Swedish EU Presidency and the Nordic Council of Ministers have the pleasure to invite you to the Baltic Sea Strategy Seminar on 12 November 2009 PROGRAM: 12.00 Registration and Buffet lunch 13.00 Opening words H. A...sgrimsson, Secretary General, Nordic Council of ...

After shaking off the worst of the communist era, Latvia quickly became a popular foreign destination for stag nights attracted by cheap hotels and plentiful beer.

A Latvian-based tourism campaign highlighting the merits of a holiday in the Estonian countryside has wrapped up successfully .

When the Soviet empire crumbled 20 years ago, exiled Rigans began to return to the Latvian capital to restore their treasures.

A forest is much more than a collection of trees. It is an ongoing dynamic system that lives, breathes, grows but, ultimately, is also capable of dying.

The main objective of the project Innovative Circus is to examine and identify the key factors that lie behind innovation, involving every possible skateholder in innovation and to achieve best practice and take measures positive to the regional and national policies.

" "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler", a television feature filmed entirely in Riga last fall, will be screened on Thursday, October 1, at the Riga Congress Hall.

In a watershed moment for Latvian politics, Nils Usakovs became the first ethnic Russian mayor of Riga following the Harmony Center Party victory in municipal elections in June.

By all accounts, the economic troubles threaten to make the next few months even colder than usual in this part of the world.

The Baltic region is one of the most interesting areas in Europe when it comes to culture and history - and a Baltic coach tour is one of the best ways of sampling all that it has to offer, as we will show in this first instalment of a two-part look at the main sights in the area.

Another anti-Russian scandal is gathering pace in Latvia, one of the three Baltic States, a republic of the former Soviet Union.

A bilateral economic and trade forum was held in Riga during a Chinese delegation's visit to Latvia from Monday to Wednesday.

" The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the launch of this year's competition for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program and the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for academic year 2010-2011. The Embassy encourages all qualified students and scholars to apply.