Latvia: Historic Riga
Score: 68

"Very appealing city with colorful houses and art-nouveau buildings.Attention urgently needed to conserve additional built heritage. Increase in tourism could become a problem."

"Pedestrian areas in the inner city enhance experience and quality of life. Flashy decoration of bars, restaurants, and tourism businesses could become a threat to visual integrity …. Low-cost carriers seem to attract mass tourism; city lacks proper vision and visitor management to deal with this."

"The old town in Riga is in danger of becoming a tourism 'ghetto' surrounded by the 'real' Riga."

"Riga should be more selective in its marketing, pay more attention to local involvement and poverty alleviation and set a clear tourism strategy/visitor management plan. Tourism should create conservation benefits in a more systematic way."