Hanza Kaunas 2011

The participants of International Hansa festival book Kaunas hotels in advance

Next year an International Hansa festival first will take place in Kaunas. This Monday, Kaunas Mayor Andrius Kupcinskas and his deputy Rimantas Mikaitis met Kaunas hotels owners to discuss the festival participants accommodation issues.

An International Hansa festival will be held on 19 - 22 May of 2011, during the traditional Kaunas city days. Every year, a member of Hansa cities union has been designated as the international center of Hansa days and it brings thousands of participants from the twin cities, wich present their local cultural, economical and social values.

Some cities delegations had already booked hotel rooms, but the most reservations hotels will receive from November.

„We hope that all delegations will book rooms in advance, but it is always a possibility that some of them will do it at the last minute. Our city shouldn't be expensive for festival participants, so it is very important that hotels would be well-meaning and wouldn't increase rooms prices", - mentioned Mayor A.Kupcinskas.

Tha head of Kaunas State Philharmonic Justinas Krepsta mentioned that International Hansa festival isn't an ordinary event, this festival is very important to it's artistic sense. „We strive to attract  cultural groups to this festival as many as we can, so that the festival would be amazing for all. We all have to strive to make this celebration memorable", - said J. Krepsta.

The director of „Hanza Kaunas 2011" Darius Rumsas mentioned that usually feast participants come not only for festival. They stay more longer than three days to see the city and try some entertainment thus bring the financial benefits to the city's business industry.

New Hanseatic League was founded in 1980. It is an organization of cities, which are economically and politically active, seeking to collaborating and once belonged to the old Hanseatic League. It currently brings together 175 European cities from 15 countries. Kaunas is the only Lithuanian city belong to the international union the New Hanseatic League.

Published by Vilija Zukaityte.