The activities of the Nemunas Euroregion Marijampolė Bureau in the field of tourism were often "first" (pioneer) in Lithuania, as well as in the regions of Marijampole and Alytus, in the Kaliningrad region, in the Suwałki region.

Together with our partners, we prepared and released:

•    the first tourism guides for the border region of Lithuania and Poland, rural tourism and camping catalogues, bicycle tourism guides;
•    the first video film, map, information publication (magazine) of Marijampole county;
•    the first Šešupė River water tourism route guide;
•    the first general map of the border region of Lithuania and Poland, with newly reconstructed (before 1948 and reconstructed in 2004-2009) border roads and maps of larger towns;
•    the first guidebook for literary tourism (cultural heritage) of Sūduva, Dainava and Nadruva (Kaliningrad / Karaliaučius region) - an album with Lithuanian and Russian writers, poets, surviving and commemorative objects, as well as educational materials for the Lithuanian language in digital form;
•    and many others - together with publications on other topics, we published about 50 different publications with a total circulation of more than 130,000 copies.
 
Also, together with partners:

•    we prepared the documentation of the Šešupė River water tourism route (in the regions of Suwałki and Marijampolė, and in the region of Lazdynai (Krasnoznamensk), in Kaliningrad region) - it is the first in Lithuania and in Kaliningrad region;
•    we also prepared documentation for the adaptation of the embankment of the left bank of Šešupė River (in the city of Marijampole) for the needs of the public and the establishment of a recreation area in Suwałki region;
•    we prepared the Lithuanian-Polish communication and engineering infrastructure special plan and documentation for the reconstruction of the roads connecting the border regions of Lithuania and Poland on both sides of the border, almost all of these roads were reconstructed by our joint projects;
•    we prepared the documentation for the creation (installation) of the tourism information system, and according to it, we installed (built) several hundred signs, links, stands by ourselves and tens of units by other institutions;
•    we prepared technical documentation and we together with other institutions carried out the renovation of cultural heritage objects in Marijampolė and Kaliningrad regions according to the prepared technical documentation;
•    we formed land plots and prepared technical documentation, according to which other institutions carried out the construction of camp-sites in the regions of Alytus, Marijampolė and Suwałk;
•    we organized lots of various trainings for representatives of various tourism sectors;
•    we restored and performed for several years the functions of Marijampolė tourism information centre from the funds earned from commercial services;
•    we helped establishing a tourist information centre in Kalvarija and Suwalki;
•    we presented the tourism potential of our region at international tourism exhibitions held in Berlin, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Białystok, Grodno, Kaliningrad and, of course, Vilnius;
•    we also implemented a dozen other initiatives important for the development of tourism.
 
You can read part of the publications (in digital format, pdf) here:

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