Tourism

According to forecasts, the Finnish economy will slip into recession next year. According to Suomen Yrittäjie, the situation is brighter for many companies than the headlines suggest. Strong balance sheets and buffers protect companies in difficult times.

The year ending has been excellent for the touring car company Touring Cars.

Touring Cars is a Finnish family business that imports, sells, rents and maintains motorhomes. The company was founded in Kuopio 40 years ago.

Saarnio has spent almost his entire working career working with motorhomes. He moved to the company’s bread in 1989 after first working as an interpreter in Siberia. Now he manages a company of 18 people from Vantaa, where the current headquarters is located.

The pandemic brought a rush of domestic customers

The corona pandemic had become the fate of Touring Cars. It briefly wiped out the largest group of renters, foreign tourists.

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This year, Kela has already sanctioned badly maintained Kela rides worth 200,000 euros. Taxi companies admit that chauffeuring tourists is more profitable than reel rides.

According to Loimu, patients may have to wait for a taxi to leave the hospital for several hours, sometimes the ride has not come at all.

– This is not only a problem for the emergency room, but also for the departments, Loimu says.

Rides are simply not available.

– This is a daily challenge for us. It may be that the patient is ready for treatment with us, and a place for further treatment has been found, but he has to wait several hours just for the taxi to arrive, says Loimu.

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The cyclist duo from Rovaniemi has traveled through South America this year. Hear how the trip went and what kind of Christmas the couple spends in Chile.

Currently, the couple is in southern Chile in the Puerto Natales National Park.

Tuija Kauppinen says that they will enjoy the city’s amenities at least for a while.

– First of all, it feels good to be in the city, because it’s been a long time along the dirt roads. Of course, there have been beautiful mountain landscapes, but we were there for quite a long time and missed even that football match.

It is now midsummer in Chile, and the landscape is full of familiar wildflowers.

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The reserve vessel M. S. Kökar will be commissioned on Sunday. Tourists can first get to know Sampo and then the reserve ship will take them on a cruise.

The broken icebreaker Sampo is now being feverishly tried to be repaired. According to estimates, the repairs can be done by mid-January.

The spare vessel brought to the rescue from Turku will take tourists on cruises and ice rafting until Sampo is operational again. The cruises are carried out in such a way that travelers first visit Sampo and then the reserve vessel takes them out to sea.

M.S. Kökar can take 150 tourists, while Sammo’s cruise can accommodate 180 tourists.

– Financial losses from cancellations of customer cruises amount to hundreds of thousands. This is also a disadvantage for trade relations. The cost estimate for Sampo’s repair is still open, but the biggest losses come from canceled cruises.

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By the end of November, almost 150,000 air passengers passed through Tampere-Pirkkala. However, we are far behind the years of the heaviest use.

The number of passengers at Tampere-Pirkkala Airport has increased significantly after the corona restrictions have been lifted. This year, by the end of November, almost 150,000 air passengers had passed through it, say Finavia and Statistics Finland.

The majority of the figure was accumulated from international flights, the domestic share was only around five percent.

Tampere-Pirkkala was the fifth busiest after Helsinki-Vantaa, Oulu, Rovaniemi and Kittilä. About 15 years ago, however, 600 to 700,000 air passengers passed through Pirkkala every year.

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The exhibition is part of Suomussalmi’s tourism development project, which improves the accessibility and awareness of cultural and historical sites through digital means.

Suomussalmi’s Jaloniemitalo will have a digital exhibition focusing on military history. It is supposed to act as a business card and a stop along the 5-way and to support other companies that focus on cultural and military history.

The exhibition is part of Suomussalmi’s tourism development project, which improves the accessibility and recognition of cultural and historical sites through digital means in order to increase the offer of year-round cultural tourism.

Podcast and audio contents have not previously been used in Suomussalmi municipality’s tourism services as part of communication and marketing.

The cost estimate of the project is approximately 150,000 euros, of which the Suomussalmi municipality’s share is 20,000 euros. Kainuu’s association has granted 119,724 euros for the project. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, which administers the project, has a self-financing share of 9,500 euros.

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The contract company ensures, among other things, that taxis are available at the airport whenever there are scheduled flights. Passengers will continue to be free to choose the taxi company they want to use.

The airport company Finavia has tendered the Tampere-Pirkkala airport taxi service. Tatsilla Oy from Tampere has been chosen as the contracted company. At the same time, the Kuopio airport taxi service was tendered with the Tampere-Pirkkala airport service.

Taxi users will see the agreement on February 1, when the agreement enters into force. The taxi arrangements in front of the terminal will change. Finavia reserves its own lane for the contracted company’s cars, which is located in front of the terminal’s main door. Other taxis are directed to another taxi lane.

Passengers can also choose another company

The contract company Tatsilla undertakes to ensure, among other things, that taxis are available at the airport whenever there are scheduled flights.

The company also has an order application, through which you can order a taxi ride for free.

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Rovaniemi is experiencing the busiest tourist season of the year. Giggle the elf and his colleagues meet thousands of tourists in the Arctic Circle every day.

The number of air passengers is still well below the level before the interest rate. On average, the number of passengers this year has been around two-thirds of what it was before the pandemic.

At Oulu airport, a few million-dollar clubs were reached before the koruna. In 2019, a total of 1 064 917 passengers passed through the airport. During the koruna, passenger numbers plummeted by about a third, to just over 300 000 passengers in both years.

During this year, the number of passengers has gradually increased, and by the end of November, Oulu Airport had already welcomed 590,223 passengers.

Kuusamo Airport had 80 768 passengers by the end of November. Before the koruna, 115 091 passengers passed through Kuusamo Airport. In the years before the koruna, the 70 000 passenger mark was still exceeded. December has traditionally been a busy month in Kuusamo, which has also been reflected in the year’s total.

Kuusamo station’s traffic in November, together with Ivalo, Kittilä, and Rovaniemi airports, differed from the situation in the rest of the country, as the number of passengers exceeded the 2019 level in November.

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There are still seats available on trains to Rovaniemi and Kemijärvi, and on the train to Kolari they are also running out. According to VR, Lapland is now attracting tourists.

– Lapland is doing just as well this year, if not better than last year. All possible equipment will be available,” says Tyynilä.

The most popular days for Christmas on the train tracks are the 22nd and 23rd. Cabin seats on south-to-north trains are almost sold out, and the same applies to car trains. Seats are still available on trains to Rovaniemi and Kemijärvi, but trains to Kolari are starting to fill up.

Christmas is the biggest season of the year for VR.

– An estimated 50,000 passengers take trains for Christmas, says Tyynilä.

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