• Local authorities are responsible for:Creation of conditions for the development of business and tourism, and promotion of such activities;
• The promotion of the tourism business as a tool for job creation and employment;
• Developing, adopting, and implementing municipal tourism development programs (strategies) and municipal tourism and recreation schemes and projects;
• Developing and implementing projects of public tourism and recreation infrastructure, such as municipal tourist information centres;
• Implementing the measures necessary for the protection and development of recreational areas, tourist activities in these areas as well as managing accounting of these recreational areas and approving regulations related to the use of the territories for recreational purposes;
• Marketing of tourism services and tourism resources located in the municipality's territory;
• Exercising the right to restrict the construction, repair, reconstruction, and fitting works in resorts and on resort territories during the tourism season.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Economy and Innovation

State Consumer Rights Protection Authority

National tourism development agency Lithuania Travel