• The highly attended and the most important Baltic travel industry event.
• More than 250 exhibitors and 600 participating organisations from 40 countries of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
• Participants: national and regional tourism authorities, hotels, airline companies, travel agencies, tourism service providers, regional tourism organisations and many other.
• Highest annual attendance compared to other travel fairs across the Baltics;
• Forecast 2012 – 30 thousand visitors from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Scandinavia and other European and Eastern countries.
• Well-chosen event dates – one of the first travel fairs of the season in Europe.
• Riga – a wonderful Northern capital conveniently located between Europe and CIS, offering European business environment, lots of marvellous sightseeing objects and tremendous recreation opportunities (www.liveriga.com).
• The capital of Latvia offers direct flight connections to more than 100 destinations across Europe, Asia and Africa (www.riga-airport.com). Riga International Airport is one of the fastest growing airports in Europe.

• a special and abundant cultural programme;
• new, favourable and affordable conditions for participation and attendance;
• the principle of openness with respect to all Latvian tourism professionals;
• thematic arrangement in the halls “Travel Latvia” and “Discover the World”... and many others!

Association of Latvian Travel Agents – a professional public organisation established in 1991 by merger of travel agents and tour-operators in order to found an amalgamated managerial institution to coordinate business activities of travel agents and tour-operators, to protect their interests and to represent Latvian travel business on the world’s scale. Presently, ALTA unites 50 major Latvian travel agents and tour-operators. Association is the member of ECTAA.

Service provider: International Exhibition Company BT 1

The most influential private-capital full-service exhibition company in the Baltic States. It has been professionally organising international and regional exhibitions for various sectors of the economy since 1994. BT 1 annually holds more than 30 exhibitions at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre.

Advertising plan:

• Public promotion of the Balttour 2013 concept: 
  • as of October 2012
• Publication of fair and participants news, facts: 
  • as of November 2012
• Attendance campaign launched in: 
  • in the 3^rd decade of January 2013 

Kipsala International Exhibition Centre is the biggest specialised exhibition complex in the Baltic countries, located next to the historical Old City. There are more than 1500 rooms in three- and four-star hotels available within the radius of 2km around the exhibition centre. Riga International Airport is located in just a 10-minute driving distance.

Kipsala International Exhibition Centre provides premises meeting international standards:

• pavilions
• conference rooms
• technical premises
• open-air exhibition area of 60,000m²
• parking area for 2.5 thousand vehicles

as well as quality services:

• logistics
• transport
• warehousing
• exhibition arrangement
• stand design
• furniture
• visa support
• communications
• lodging
• presentation equipment, sound & light equipment

 – all essential things for efficient work and exhibiting. 

Welcome to Riga!