TOURISM INFRASTRUCTURE

Development of nature friendly tourism in the nature park has resulted in increase of numbers of visitors to Lake Engure Nature Park (LENP) up to 5 times. There have been ca 5000 persons visiting LENP in 2003 and up to 8600 in 2004. We have designed and set up the nature trail, called “Orchid trail”  that was opened in June 2003 and experienced up to 1000 visitors in 2003.  Information signs  have been set up, building of bird watching towers  is finished, and summer lecture house is in successfully working. As added value to the project activities Lake Engure Nature park fund was entrusted by municipality to manage one boating station in Mersrags and obtained funding from Dutch Embassy in Latvia to develop small information centre there. Not only project is financing development of tourism infrastructure in LENP. Following our initiative, also Mersrags municipality, Embassy of the Netherlands in Latvia and State Stock Company “Latvian State Forests” have invested in development of tourism infrastructure in LENP.