Military tourism development opportunities in Lithuania

Development of tourism encourages growth or economy. Tourism services helps to restore mental and physical abilities of customers. Depending on their motivation, customers tend to choose different sorts of tourism. This leads to development of various tourisms species, like recreational, cultural, sports, extreme economic, political, health restoring, rural tourism. Military tourism is very often closely related with other tourism species like historical, cultural, extreme, adventurous tourism. Wide variety of military tourism services can be found in Lithuania, but military tourism in Lithuania is still at the primary stage of development. The object: development of military tourism. Goal of the study: to analyze military tourism development possibilities in Lithuania. Tasks: • to analyze theories of tourism development; • to investigate classification of tourism, their species, types and forms; • to determine place of military tourism among other types and forms of tourism services; • to analyze possibilities of military tourism development in Lithuania. Methods of the study: analysis of scientific literature, survey, filing. Our study showed that mostly young people are interested in military tourism. Quite big interest in active tourism and tourism species quite similar to military tourism (extreme tourism), shows that there is plenty of potential military tourism customers and know is the right time for developing military tourism. The main difficulty that military tourism is facing is lack of information. Customers do not get enough information about this sort of tourism. It is vital to invest more in military tourism popularisation, introduce society to military tourism services, and prepare new routes and services. Another very important aspect is price of military tourism services. Respondents are tending very little money g to military tourism services. Because of this, suppliers of military tourism services firstly should introduce quite simple ant cheap services. After some time variety of services should be expanded, services of higher quality introduced. However military tourism seems to have good development perspectives in Lithuania