Tourism

According to the Ministry of the Environment, work on a building law on Airbnb is due to start next spring.

How would you like to earn a couple of thousand euros a night if you let tourists use your house?

Rovaniemi currently has a number of luxury detached houses available on airbnb, a popular site for tourists. A night in a detached house costs around €1000 – €3000 per night, depending on the property. This means that during the hottest season, for example, a single-family home owner in Rovaniemi can earn up to €20 000 per week at best.

Lapland has the most airbnb properties in Finland

Airbnb accommodation is most abundant in Lapland, Rovaniemi and the fjord resorts, relative to the population. In Rovaniemi, there are currently around 1,000 Airbnb properties available. The majority of these are apartment buildings.

About a third of the properties are private homes or cabins. The most expensive large properties are located either on the river bank or near the city center.

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In Kuusamo, Kujala Reindeer Farm’s tourism income grew in two years, outstripping that of meat production.

Increasingly, reindeer herders are earning additional income from tourism. For example, the Kujala Reindeer Farm in Kuusamo has been earning more income from tourism than from reindeer husbandry itself for a couple of years now.

As a source of income, tourism has overtaken meat sales on Kujala’s farm three years ago.

– When we started working on tourism in 2017, already in 2019 tourism income grew more than meat production income.

The reindeer herders have founded the Porotilamatkailu association, which includes about a hundred reindeer herders from the reindeer herding area. The aim of the association is to encourage reindeer herders to engage in tourism.

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Tourism is becoming the main source of income for many reindeer farmsRead More »

According to councillor Saana Veltheim (Greens), the council’s decision not to use the Pride ticket has already hampered tourism.

On 15 December, the Kittilä Municipal Council decided that the municipality of Kittilä will draw up an equality plan and implement a Pride flag during 2023.

The decision was taken by a vote of 18-7, with two abstentions.

The municipal council had decided on 7 December that the municipality would not introduce a rainbow flag during Pride week.

– Someone in the tourism sector had announced that it would not bring tourists to Levi, he says.

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Lapland Marketing Company applied unsuccessfully in two rounds for a new CEO. In August, the company was in turmoil, the CEO was fired and the board changed.

Since then, the company has unsuccessfully applied for a new CEO in two separate rounds of searches.

The company informs that, as the CEO search did not result in a recruitment, its Board of Directors elected Luiro to continue as CEO until the end of 2023. The CEO contract also includes one option year.

Currently, 20 municipalities have committed their financial support to joint marketing and communication in Lapland.

– With the basic funding, we have received a mandate from the municipalities to implement a change in the operating model and plan marketing priorities, goals and resourcing in cooperation. As a result, an even more open, cost-effective and effective way of implementing joint marketing in Lapland is created, Luiro commented in the press release.

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Satu Luiro to continue as CEO of House of LaplandRead More »

The CEO of Solaris Kylpylöiden says that Paunonen has been dismissed for production and financial reasons.

Rauhalahti Spa Hotel is part of Solaris Spas. The company also has a spa in Karjalohja.

– He has been dismissed for production and economic reasons.

Eskola says that he himself will be the manager of the Rauhalahti spa hotel.

At the spa hotel in Rauhalahti, layoff warnings have also been issued to the entire staff. The change negotiations, i.e. the former yt negotiations, are already over.

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Maarit Paunonen, manager of Rauhalahti Spa Hotel, was dismissed from her postRead More »

Two large reserves, i.e. the right to apply for a mining permit, have been granted in the vicinity of the Pyhä ski resort. As a result, Pyhätunturi Oy has come out against possible mining projects in the area.

According to Pyhätunturi Oy, two large “mining reservations” have been granted in Pelkosenniemi near the Pyhä-Luosto National Park and Pyhä ski resort in November and December.

Pyhätunturi Oy announced on Wednesday that it is actively opposing mining in “core areas of tourism and areas particularly sensitive to nature”.

According to the company, operators in the Pyhä area have drawn up a citizens’ initiative to get the municipality of Pelkosenniemi to take action to stop the mining project.

The initiative has already collected almost 3,000 signatures in three days. Pyhätunturi Oy also says that it has signed the initiative itself.

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On Wednesday, tourists arrived in the Arctic Circle from Paris, London and Manchester, among others.

Rovaniemi Airport is the busiest time of the year.

There are several scheduled flights to Europe, and during the busiest hour on Wednesday, three planes will land at the airport.

According to Juujärvi, the coming weekend before Christmas is traditionally the busiest time of the season at the airport.

On Wednesday, a total of 19 flights depart from Rovaniemi Airport, 13 of which fly to destinations other than Helsinki. Only six of the flights are charter flights, which means that scheduled flights bring the majority of Christmas tourists.

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The five-month training course for tourist guides will start in January. The work will run alongside other activities.

New tourist guides are being trained in Joensuu after a five-year break.

The course, organised by Joensuu Tourist Guides Association and Joensuu Community College, will start in January and end in June.

The course programme includes lectures on the history of the city, Karelian cuisine, nature and architecture.

The civic school’s courses include the dark history of Joensuu and Joensuu of rock and pop music.

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A new charter flight service to Kuusamo will be launched from Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Despite the turbulent economic situation in Europe and the war in Ukraine, the winter in the Ruka Kuusamo tourist area looks good. There will be more than 80 charter flights to Kuusamo during December and more than 140 during the winter.

In January, a new charter flight series will be launched from Rotterdam to Kuusamo in the Netherlands. During the winter, charter flights will arrive at Kuusamo Airport from the UK and Central and Southern Europe.

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