Government proposes €1 million extra for tourism in Lappeenranta and Mikkeli – effectively subsidising airports

Passengers leaving for Budapest walking towards the plane at Lappeenranta airport.
In the archive photo, tourists at Lappeenranta Airport.

Tourism aid frees up money for cities to support their airports.

The cities of Lappeenranta and Mikkeli are proposed to receive a total of €1 million in tourism aid in the government’s budget supplement.

According to preliminary information, the amount would be divided equally between Lappeenranta and Mikkeli.

– This will save cities money that they can use to support their own airports, for example,” Torniainen says in a press release.

The newspaper Etelä-Saimaa also talks about supporting tourism. According to the newspaper’s anonymous government sources, tourism support is specifically about supporting airports.

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