Tourism
Tourism is one of the sectors covered by almost each and every municipality has high hopes. This chapter attempts to analyze how legitimate these expectations are Vidzeme region. Latvian Tourism Development National Program 2001 for 2010 refers to the World Tourism Organization forecasts that global tourism industry will expand rapidly. Particular could feel the Baltic Sea region, which is rapidly growing and economically active.
A number of indicators suggest that Latvia is currently not fully exploit opportunities in the tourism industry. Tourist services share of national GDP is 1.8%, while in Finland, with similar natural resources and climate, the rate of 4.1%. Tourism experts predict that the tourism share of the Latvian GDP to grow at least twice or three times. Such an increase would create more jobs in this sector, which currently employs only 0.34% of total employment in tourism, and 6% tourism-related courses of action.
National Tourism Development Program highlights two main tourist sites of concentration of resources Vidzeme planning region: the Gauja National Park and Ziemeļvidzemi. It also mentions the fact that the Vidzeme central part has the most active and dedicated tourism potential of the country. Survey on interest, which leads to Vidzeme - tourist attraction, it was found that a region largely attributed to the mountains (as high as they either tend to be Latvian). It can be said that regional perceptions of the two-letter G through - the highest point Gaiziņkalns (311.6 m above sea level) and the beautiful natural landscae around the Gauja River. The region is also popular with a large number of historical monuments, castles and castle grounds. The survey shows that the sale is the most popular place for tourism planning in the region.