The Visit Latvia program.

09/06/2023

The Visit Latvia Program is now part of the Northern European Business Association's (NEBA) Visit NEBA program.

NEBA's Visit Latvia Program was developed to attract people to Latvia to interact with NEBA members thereby expanding personal networks in such a manner that they can combine “business and pleasure”. The idea is to visit Latvia for one week fulfilling a particular goal while enjoying some of the...

09/06/2023

NEBA Networking through sport meeting, June 12th, 2023
ZOOM Video Conferencing
Dear Members and Friends,
The invitation is addressed to:
1. those interested in organizing sports teams visit from your country to visit sports teams in Northern Europe or visa-versa
2. those providing services associated with sports tourism such as hotels, restaurants, transportation services and other service providers.
NEBA considers networking through sport to be one way to develop relationships between people that could lead to successful business cooperation. The concept is new, but the groundwork has been set in our sports tourism section of our Visit Latvia program (https://neba-network.eu/sport) headed by Normunds Kupcis of the European Recreational and Old-timers Hockey Association (http://www.euroha.eu/en/). Normunds has been arranging hockey team visits to Latvia for quite some time now. NEBA’s “Visit Latvia program” was renamed “NEBA’s Visit program” as interest was shown by our members in England, Scotland, Finland, Canada and Georgia, and expanded to include curling, football, cricket, etc. And this is just the start. We hope to expand the concept under NEBA umbrella in the months to come.
Our immediate objective is to involve more countries in the sports tourism initiative. We wish to determine the level of interest in this initiative and to discuss specific visit projects if possible.
You are kindly invited to attend a teleconferencing meeting to discuss the aforementioned objective.
· Date: Monday, June 12th, 2023
· Time: 18.30 (Riga, GMT+3)
· Place: ZOOM Videoconferencing.
Please register your intent to attend by following this link - https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSe.../viewform
Should there be any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me directly.
Best regards,
Ed Kalvins

29/06/2022

The VISIT LATVIA Program was developed by Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Latvia (https://www.facebook.com/canchamlatvia and https://cancham.lv/) in cooperation with the Northern European Business Association (NEBA) https://www.facebook.com/NEBA.eu to attract visitors to Latvia in order to develop business opportunities for our respective organizations, and their members and partners.

The basic concept involves visiting Latvia for a week to do something useful while having a bit of a holiday and getting to know the country, all for a package price fitting the visitor’s budget. The Visit Latvia program includes:
• Medical tourism,
• Sports tourism,
• Trade tourism, and
• Business Development tourism.

The program is built on CanCham’s established DMC (Destination Management Coordinator - https://cancham.lv/dmc) system which facilitates entering new regions and new markets. A DMC is a professional with local knowledge and expertise, working in the design and implementation of events, activities, and program logistics for a client with the purpose of developing business opportunities in a particular region for the specific client.

The idea is to visit Latvia for one week fulfilling a particular goal while enjoying some of the things that Latvia has to offer.

There are currently four initiatives under the Visit Latvia Program:

1. MEDICAL TOURISM mobilizes CanCham’s health care providers and hospitality sector members. They provide a wide range of medical services locally, and offer international clients a bundle of services for a visit to Latvia to receive medical examinations, diagnostics and treatment at affordable prices, in a secure environment, and by professional and highly skilled specialists with the added benefit of being able to enjoy the cultural and scenic environment of Latvia. Read more: https://cancham.lv/medical-tourism.

2. The SPORTS TOURISM initiative provides a bundle of services and coordination of trips to and from Latvia for teams involved in hockey, curling, basketball, football (soccer), cricket and rugby with the added benefit of being able to enjoy the cultural and scenic environment of Latvia. Read more: https://cancham.lv/sports-tourism.

3. TRADE TOURISM: CanCham members and their partners offer a wide range of trade facilitation and market entry services for those considering selling products or services to Latvia and Northern Europe, or importing from this region. CanCham’s trade tourism initiative provides a bundle of services and coordination of trips to Latvia to become acquainted with the region and its possibilities. https://cancham.lv/trade-tourism.

4. BUSINESS TOURISM: CanCham members and their partners offer a wide range of services locally for those who may be interested in considering setting up business, or manufacturing or logistics operations in Latvia and Northern Europe. CanCham’s business tourism initiative provides a bundle of services and coordination of trips to Latvia for entrepreneurs to become acquainted with the region and its possibilities. Read more: https://cancham.lv/business-tourism.

For further information on the VISIT LATVIA program, feel free to contact me directly at ed.kalvins@cancham.lv.

Yours sincerely,
Ed Kalvins,
Director, Business Development