Nature tourism product development seminar in Zemgale, 29th April 2011.

On 29th April in this year in the information center “Gulbji” was held nature tourism product development seminar organized by LFN. 28 tourism businessmen, tourism information center employees and other interested took part in 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. Diāna Meiere from The Natural History Museum of Latvia continued with introduction of fungi kingdom meanwhile educating about the traditional and untraditional usage of fungi. In conclusion everyone in the information center yard could explore and to get know fungi and lichens in the lead of Diāna Meiere. 

Presentations read 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 ceļojtājs” 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.