In 2018 Riga was visited by a record number of foreign tourists. According to the Riga's Bureau of Tourism Development, this figure reached 3.5 million, which is 1.4 times more than in 2017. Last year, foreigners who visited our country most often wre from German - 176,900 people (+ 11.9% by 2017), Russia - 173,800 (+ 11.7%), Estonia - 109,800 (+ 7.4%) , Lithuania - 100,400 (+ 6.7%) and Great Britain - 98,700 (+ 6.6%).