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Dr. Agnė Vaitkuvienė
In Blog, Destination management

How to implement heritage knowledge in a countryside tourism experience

Dr. Agnė Vaitkuvienė is the President of the Lithuanian Countryside Tourism Association, the owner and manager of the homestead “Provansalis”, and a lecturer at Vilnius University. She has been teaching at Vilnius University since 2006, in the courses – Interpretation and Communication of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Lithuania and Cultural Heritage and Tourism. She therefore combines “the best of two worlds”: practical experience as a small rural tourism entrepreneur, and at the same time a profound understanding and vision about the importance of training and skills development in this sector.

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January 18, 2021
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In Blog, Social skills, Visitor attractions

Seeing the past differently – museums look to the future

New perspectives

The international Black Lives Matter movement has strongly featured in recent headlines. One of its key aims – to affirm the contributions of black people to society and promote resilience in the face of oppression is reflected in the major re-evaluation by British museums of many of the artefacts in their collections and how they are being interpreted.

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January 5, 2021
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In Blog, Covid-19

Hotel recovery levers after covid: Insights from Spain

During the months of July and August 2020, only 50% of the hotels in Spain have been open, as opposed to 100% that would have been in a normal year, a year in which we would not have been living through a pandemic. The figure is even worse for the month of September, when the operating hotel offer did not exceed 30%. From October onwards, the hotels have had to gradually close, until there is a remainder called “refuge hotels” of barely 10% of the existing capacity in Spain, as establishments open to facilitate the accommodation of transport or health personnel throughout the country.

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December 24, 2020
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