National tourism information system

Lithuania is establishing a National tourism information system. This system will have features such as:
- allowing accommodation service providers to provide information about their customers (tourists) and tourism statistics to the state. Up until now accommodation service providers had to provide statistical information by filling out online or paper forms. The National tourism information system will allow them to do it automatically via the system.
- It will gather all information about tourism resources (such as natural objects, landmarks, cultural heritage objects, tourism services etc.) in Lithuania and provide access to them in an open data format.
- It will provide information on tourism flows from mobile data.
- Information is going to be visible and accessible on the Lithuania.travel website. The completely updated website (foreseen in 2024) will allow filtering, sorting the data, representing trends in charts, as well as creating personal touristic routes or making travel packages for tour operators.

Target: Updated Lithuania.travel website in 2024.

Expected results: less administrative burden for accommodation service providers, more transparent hospitality sector, better quality and more efficient gathering of tourism statistics, data for business development and decision making; more sustainable tourism services in regions and prolonged time tourists’ stays; larger tourism input in the economy.

Noteworthy: Some system segments (Open mobile data; Tourism Data Dashboard; Tourism statistics; Municipalities infrastructure research) are already available for users.

Furthermore, in 2022, Lithuania implemented an open mobile data research project - an innovative project that allows different stakeholders of the tourism sector to access data about which tourism destinations travelers visit during their stay in the country, how long they stay in a particular place, etc. 
It offers data analysis and an interactive map to visualize information, which turns anonymized mobile positioning data from mobile network operators into statistical insights. The data will be updated in real-time and reach users with a minimum delay of a week or two.