Maintenance of Latvian Business Language, Culture, and Community through Heritage Tourism and the Internet

Authors

Gundars Kaupins, Boise State UniversityFollow
Nina M. Ray, Boise State UniversityFollow
Andris Berzins, President of Latvian Community Center, Indianapolis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2009

Abstract

This article investigates heritage tourism in Latvia by first exploring the reasons why Latvian heritage tourists go to Latvia and why this tourism is important to the nation. The article then explores key Web sites that Latvian heritage tourists can use to investigate their ancestral homeland and finally looks at how popular heritage tourism-related words are in the Internet in Latvian and other languages.

Publication Information

Kaupins, Gundars; Ray, Nina M.; and Berzins, Andris. (2009). "Maintenance of Latvian Business Language, Culture, and Community through Heritage Tourism and the Internet". Global Business Languages, 1455-72.