Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, announced that it would open its 47^th base at Baden-Baden (Karlsruhe) Airport in March 2012  with two based aircraft and 20 routes, delivering over 800,000 passengers p.a., and sustaining 800 jobs in the Baden region.

In addition to Ryanair’s existing 12 Baden-Baden routes Ryanair will open  new route to  Vilnius.

Date: May 24-25, 2012

Venue: Lithuanian Energy Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania

One of the main goals of this 9th annual conference is the discussion on the future perspectives on energy issues and the endeavour of the perfection of young scientists.
Ph. D. students, postdocs, master students and all other young scientists doing research on energy issues are very welcome to the conference as speakers.

On 23rd of September in Vilnius, the State Department of Tourism (SDT)  delegated to „Visit Lithuania“ to organize the Workshop of Conference Tourism in Lithuania. The main goal of this workshop was to establish useful contacts between Germany and Lithuania.

„We are very glad, that Workshop of Conference Tourism was very successful. Delegates from Germany were very interested of our country and our offered opportunities of Conference Tourism in Lithuania. Conferences, international events will be the new sphere where Lithuania and Germany can collaborate together“ – said director of  SDT dr. Raimonda Balniene.

„In Workshop we presented the sevices which we can offer for the clients. I‘m very glad that in this conference we could have a lot of very good contacts and relations with the best professionals of coference tourism from Germany. We could  communicate live and that kind of contact is more effective than to offer the services by other ways (like e-mail, telephone)“, - about the workshop impression said delegated member of  travel agency „Visit Lithuania“, Justinas Bortkevicius.

Director of SDT dr.R.Balniene said, that this workshop was so necessary to Lithuania because interest of Lithuanian Tourism opportunities became more significant for Germany in the past few years.

The participants from Germany said, that delegates from Lithuania showed all  the best opportunities of Conference Tourism in Lithuania. They met with the persons, with who communication can be permanent in the future. The parsticipants of workshop also were very suprised, that in three days they saw so many places where we can be organized conferences and some other events. Lithuania is so competitive compared with other countries in Conference Tourism sphere and this co-operation between Germany and Lithuania will be so useful for both countries.

The three days program for participants from Germany, was made including inspection of main Tourism regions in Lithuania: Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas. At that time, for the guests from the Germany, we tried to show main centers of conferences, hotels more as possible and to of course, to present our towns.

Conference Tourism is one more field of Tourism, which need to develop more and try to attract much more tourists, because Lithuania can offer high quality services and organization.

After the workshop which was organized by SDT, delegates from the Germany were so satisfied that they have got more information than they couldn‘t even to expect. Lithuania has a good chance to present the country that we can be competitive and to expose all opportunities and innovations in  Conference Tourism sphere.

Date: 18- 20 of October, 2012
Venue: Vilnius
Organizer: Lithuanian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and Organizing Committee

We invite all involved in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain treatment throughout Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Europe to participate in this Congress. The objective of the Congress is to present an up-to-date clinical and scientific information that would be helpful in reaching the better quality of clinical practice and patient care. Symposium lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions will cover a broad range of topics aiming for a good theoretical and practical balance. It will also be an opportunity to get new professional insights and exchange research ideas with experts and participants from different countries.

Date: 17-19th of November 2011

Venue: Lithuanian University of Agriculture, Akademija (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Organizers:

• Lithuanian Scientific Society Department „Tribologija"
• Lithuanian University of Agriculture
• International Tribology Council

At 23-26 of June in Split, Croatia was one of the most significant events of the conference of tourism professionals' blue CONFEC 2011.

In this business mission, gathered participants from 25 European countries, united in their goal to make the most promising contacts.  For the fifth time at the conference, tourism professionals and the Lithuanian State Tourism Department brought back from Croatia, an impressive amount of useful contacts which is likely to help Lithuanian's future tourism related business events.

With the initiative of Vilnius Tourist Information Centre & Convention Bureau a meeting of the representatives of three Baltic States was organized in Vilnius last week. Estonia was represented by the director of Estonian Convention Bureau Kadri Karu and Latvia – by the Marketing Manager Aigars Smiltans acting on behalf of “Meet Riga” which is conducting a function of the convention bureau.

“The meeting was encouraged by the world-changing markets and new trends of conference planning. All the changes call for a fresh look at the country’s or city’s possibilities to introduce itself as a potential destination. Success requires the cooperation at the regional level”, - says Jolanta Beniuliene, the director of Vilnius Tourist Information Centre & Convention Bureau.

In 2012 a new economy-class Nordic Choice Hotel will be opened in Vilnius. The hotel will be located near the Old Town and will have 200 economy-class rooms, 4 conference halls, an underground parking and a  big fitness center.

The total value of the project is estimated to be about 8.7 million Euros, 25% of the amount being covered by EU structural funds. The project is being carried out by Norwegian firm Selvaag.

Nordic Choice Hotels currently runs 170 hotels in Scandinavia and the Baltic states under a franchising agreement with Choice Hotels International. In the global hotel group rankings by MKG Hospitality, Choice Hotels International is ranked sixth among ten largest hotel groups worldwide, including Intercontinental Hotels Group, Hilton Worldwide, Marriott International, Accor.

Vilnius International Airport (VIA) introduced a new timetable of regular flights for the summer season. VIA starts the summer season by introducing new destinations and airlines which are to begin to operate flights to/from Vilnius.

The greatest news this summer season in VIA is the arrival of two low cost airlines Wizz Air and Ryanair. The old-timer of VIA, Estonian Air, has also expanded its destination map.

In the summer season 15 airlines will operate regular flights in 25 destinations to/from VIA: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bremen, Brussels, Dublin, Doncaster, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Kiev, Copenhagen, Cork, London, Maskva, Milan, Oslo, Praha, Riga, Rome, Stockholm, Tallinn, Warsaw, Vienna and Girona.