Swedish designers will share with Vitebsk enterprises their experience in creating a souvenir market

June 1, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Swedish designers will visit Vitebsk in August and share their experience in creating a souvenir market. This meeting is organized within the framework of the Swedish-Belarusian-Latvian project "Panorama-Dvina-Daugava" and was confirmed at a meeting between the Chairman of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee and the Governor of the island of Gotland, the BELTA correspondent was informed by the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee. The designers will study the Vitebsk souvenir market and share their proposals for the development of this industry in the regional center. The "Panorama-Dvina-Daugava" project also plans a seminar for hotels and restaurants on conducting tourism business this year. It will be held in June in Polotsk. During the seminar, chefs from Belarus, Sweden, and Latvia will compete in their skills. In October of this year, the final conference on the results of the "Panorama-Dvina-Daugava" project will be held in Vitebsk, where prospects for further cooperation in the format of signed agreements and new international projects will be outlined. A trilateral agreement on cooperation in the development of cultural tourism between Sweden, Belarus, and Latvia for the "Panorama-Dvina-Daugava" project was signed in May 2005. To implement it, coordination centers were established in Vitebsk, Polotsk, Daugavpils, and Visby in each country. The project is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). -0-