What role does the Tourist Board play in preserving nature and maintaining the ecological balance?
Would you say this would encourage the national tourism as well? Yes. I would compare it with Lithuania or Russia where I’ve been. Our cooperation with national parks in the product development regarding what we can do or what they can do to promote is very natural and mutual cooperation. What does tourism represent to Estonia in terms of money and GDP? Over 10 billion EEK, which is 15% GDP. That is quite high. But this is together with the secondary effect, it means that how we count, we calculate on the model brought to us by Irish Consultancy. If you have heard what tourism organisations presented in the United Nations this is actually the count method to measure the impact of tourism, we don’t use it yet. Some countries use the same method so that it’s comparable to the others. There are also discussions about the fact the GDP is lower in statistics. We always use the 15% as a basis. 18% of the export of services and 16% of workforce. For example having small islands like Kihnu wit
