Nature tourism product development seminar in Latgale, 26th April 2011

On 26th April this year in museum “Andrupenes lauku sēta” was held second seminar about nature tourism product development. 34 tourism businessmen, tourism information center employees and other interested took part in this seminar.

During this seminar Viesturs Vintulis from LU Faculty of Biology Museum of Zoology during the seminary spoke about bats and the opportunity to manage monitoring without disturbing them. In addition Mihails Pupins from Daugavpils Zoological garden spoke about how to without forgetting about protection use frogs, toads, newts and snakes making and developing tourism offers.  In conclusion of this seminary every participant of this seminar went through Andrupene marsh trail, explored Andrupene marsh plants, animals and gained practical insight into the nature "monitoring" organisation process.

Presentations red during the seminar can be found here.

Thank you all, who took part in the seminar! We hope that everything heard, seen and learned during the seminar will give a new inspiration in tourism range diversification and will increase nature tourism product development.

Those who are interested in establishing their knowledge gained during the seminar and also wants to explore something new about other plant of animal kingdom groups are more than welcome to take part in other LLTA “Lauku ceļotājs” organized seminars about nature tourism product development held in May this year.  Visit LLTA “Lauku ceļotājs” home page www.celotajs.lv for further information.

Ģirts Strazdiņš

The project is partly financed by the European Union within the Baltic Sea Region Programme.