Experience exchange program for the organization 
“Hospitality Kyrgyzstan” in Latvia
June 16 - 30, 2003

June 15th 	23.10.	 Arrival in Riga 
Sunday	 		 Overnight in B&B in Riga

June 16th 	08.00	Breakfast in the B&B 
Monday	09.00	Program in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs” 
			Ms. Asnāte Ziemele, the president of the Association
-	Introductory information about the Latvian Country Tourism Association
		13.00 	Time for lunch
		14.00	Mrs. Līga Zelmene – Laizāne, travel consultant
-	introduction with data basis of country holiday accommodations
-	selling and booking system
-	co-operation/ procedures with house owners 
18.30	Time for dinner and overnight in the B&B

June 17th	08.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Tuesday	09.00	Program in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”
			Ms. Asnāte Ziemele
-	information about the Latvian Country Tourism Association “Country holidays”/ history/ main aims
			Ms. Linda Krūkle
- organizational structure
13.00	Time for lunch
14.00	Program in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”
	Ms Asnāte Ziemele
-	information about the Association / activities/ strategy
		Mrs. Līga Zelmene-Laizāne
- marketing / advertising country holidays, developing marketing materials, collecting and handling information for the annual catalogue 
	18.00   Time for dinner and overnight in the B&B

June 18th  	09.00	Breakfast in the B&B 
Wednesday	10.00	Meeting in the Ministry of Agriculture	
Rural Development Department – state support, subsidies for RT 
entrepreneurs 
12.00	Time for lunch, free time in the city
15.00	Meeting in the Cooperation Board of Agricultural Organizations	
	16.00	Meeting in Rural Support center
		18.00	Time for dinner and overnight in the B&B	

June 19th 
Thursday	07.00	Breakfast in the B&B
		program outside of Riga / Vidzeme region
	11.00   Meeting in Tourism Information center at Salacgrīva - general information, activities, co-operation between municipality and Country holidays, information updating	
13.00	Visiting country homes, vacation cottages, B&B / talk with owners / 
            quality inspections 

Dinner and overnight in the country house Nr. 228 “Enksāre”, Valmiera region 

June 20th 	09.00	Breakfast at “Enksāre”
Friday		10.00	Transfer to Riga
11.30	Meeting in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”
12.30	Meeting in Latvian Agriculture consultation center in Ozolnieki, Jelgava region (30 km from Riga)
- education for rural entrepreneurs 
14.30	Lunch in the country house Nr. 142 “Straumēni”
Visiting vacation cottage Nr. 104 “Slokas” in Vecumnieki, 45 km from Riga
18.00	Dinner/ back to Riga/ overnight in the B&B

June 21nd  	09.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Saturday           11.00	Meeting in tourism information center at Tukums town – general information, acitivities, co-operation between municipality and the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”, information updating
14.00	Visiting country homes, vacation cottages, B&B/ talk with owners / inspections
            Dinner and overnight in the guest house Nr. 36 “Sauleskalni” 

June 22nd  	09.00	Breakfast in the guest house
Sunday		10.00	Visiting some country homes
		13.00	Departure to Riga
	Sightseeing, dinner and overnight in the B&B
			
June 23d  	MIDSUMMER - NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN LATVIA
Monday            08.00	Breakfast in the B&B
09.00		Departure to country house “Āriņas” or hotel “Ērgļi”, Madona region, 100 km from Riga 
- participating in some preparation work for festivities
			- festivities
Overnight in the hotel “Ērgļi” or country house “Āriņas”

June 24th  	NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN LATVIA
Tuesday    		Breakfast, sightseeing
			Departure to Riga, overnight in B&B

June 25th  	08.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Wednesday       09.00	Program in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”
 Mrs. Elita Ornina, Mrs. Līga Zelmene – Laizāne 
-	work with owners/members, seminars, education, training materials,
-	consultations,
-	organization of international RT conferences,
-	national seminars, 
-	support programs, 
13.00	Time for lunch 
		15.00	Meeting with Latvian Mortgage Bank 
deals with state support money for rural development
18.00	Time for dinner and overnight in the B&B 

June 26th  	08.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Thursday  	09.30	Meeting in Latvian Tourism Development agency
12.00	Riga Tourism information centre – general information, activities, co-operation with the municipality and the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”, information updating
14.00	Time for lunch
15.30	Tourism department in the Ministry of Economics
18.00	Time for dinner and overnight in the B&B

June 27th  	07.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Friday		Program outside of Riga / Kurzeme region 
11.00	Kuldīga Tourism Agency 
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Kuldīga region municipality – self-government role for RT development and supporting tourist information centers
15.00	Sightseeing/ visiting some houses, taking part in inspection work 
	18.00	Back to Riga/ time for dinner and overnight in the B&B

June 28th  	09.00	Breakfast in the B&B
Saturday	Program outside of Riga / Vidzeme region
11.00	Meeting at Ogre Tourist information center (30 km from Riga) - general information, activities, co-operation with the municipality and the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”, information updating.
		13.00	Departure to the country house Nr. 118 “Puķkalniņi”
13.30	Lunch
14.30	Meeting in the office of the Association  “Lauku ceļotājs”
Ms. Asnate Ziemele, Mrs Līga Zelmene – Laizāne 
–	discussion about the experience of previous days
–	future aims and visions of country holidays
			Dinner and overnight at “Puķkalniņi”

June 29th  	09.00	Breakfast at “Puķkalniņi”
Sunday			Lunch, dinner and overnight at “Puķkalniņi”

June 30th  	03.30	Transfer to the airport 
Monday	05.55	Departure