Tourism

The city believes that the Marina as a whole will support the development of the entire coastal tourist area.

Kalajoki is about to receive major support for the development of the Hiekkasärkki tourist area.

The Government is proposing EUR 6 million for the construction of the Marina guest boat area, and Kalajoki has earmarked a similar amount in its investment programme.

The Marina area is intended to be the new attraction of the sand spits with its port, accommodation, restaurants and leisure facilities.

– The project supports the development of the Kalajoki tourist center and also the entire coastal Tourism area, Anttila believes.

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The services will be closed from 5 December 2022 and will reopen in February next year.

The Pikku-Syöte youth and leisure centre is closing its slope, hotel and restaurant services for two months. The services will be closed from 5.12.2022.

The newspaper Kaleva was the first to report the news.

The closure is justified by rising costs: energy, food, transport and mobility have become more expensive and interest rates have risen. This has increased costs for businesses and customers.

Hotel and restaurant services will reopen on February 10, 2023, and slope activities on February 17, 2023.

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Tampere attracts a large number of international and local events. At peak times, average hotel rates can be up to 25% higher than in Helsinki.

Tampere is actively hosting events throughout the year, and this is reflected in the hotel room rates.

– In the summer, for example, we can have bottlenecks in terms of accommodation if there is a major international event and a lot of local events going on in the city at the same time. Of course, it is not desirable for these to eat away at each other’s audiences because there is no accommodation,” says Heinämäki.

Visit Tampere’s Ahjoharju points out that Tampere has never had as many people in hotels as this year.

– We have had big events. There have been no similar ones in Helsinki, and therefore neither these price spikes, says Ahjoharju.

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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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Metsähallitus decided to simplify the off-road traffic permit based on feedback from companies.

In future, safari operators will only need one off-road permit per safari.

Until last winter, companies needed several separate off-road permits for the same activity; one for each company, one for each guide and one for each customer.

Metsähallitus simplified the permit based on feedback.

The company must agree on the safari activity and the grooves used in it with Metsähallitus in advance.

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According to the Finnish Association of Rural Tourism Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs are hoping for a price cap on energy costs and state support as soon as possible.

Continuing cost increases are undermining the service level and profitability of rural tourism, says the Federation of Agricultural and Forestry Producers (MTK).

The main reason for the sharp fall in profitability is the rise in electricity prices. This is the result of a survey commissioned by the Finnish Rural Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Association to its members.

According to the association, entrepreneurs want a price cap on energy costs and state support as soon as possible.

MTK says that tourism business operations are also hampered by rising fuel prices, rising prices of food, labor shortages and the lack of Russian tourists.

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In mid-November, the University of Eastern Finland’s Tourism Business Research Group will celebrate a week of celebrations to promote both tourism business education and research in Joensuu.

The University of Eastern Finland’s tourism business education and research is being promoted this week in Joensuu.

The first students of the Master’s programme in International Tourism Business started their studies at the Joensuu campus five years ago.

To date, 38 Masters graduates have graduated from the programme and have made excellent career progress.

The week culminates on Thursday with a festive seminar open to everyone, where a master’s degree graduate from the tourism business master’s program and also a doctor’s speech will be heard. After the coffee break, there will be a panel discussion on the program, where we will consider whether nature can be a brand for Eastern Finland, and how we could stand out from the rest of nature-Finland.

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The warm November has slowed down snowmaking on the slopes. The opening of the season in Pyhä was pushed back a week.

The ski season opens in Ylläs this coming Friday. Only one slope on the Äkäslompolo side is ready.

On Saariselkä, the ski season is scheduled to open on 25 November. Even there, snow conditions have been challenging.

– This comes against the backdrop of a record warm November across Europe. Snowmaking has been a challenge, but fortunately, colder air has been flowing into Lapland. It’s a shame for customers that the opening was delayed, but it’s not unprecedented.

In Levi, the skiing and skiing season opened at the same time as Ruka on October 7.

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The City of Kotka has come up with the idea of a ship hotel together with the development company Cursor.

A ship hotel is planned for Kotka’s Kantasatama. The hotel ship would be located as close as possible to the event centre to be built in Kantasatama.

The development company Cursor has been working with the City of Kotka to find solutions to increase accommodation capacity. More accommodation will be needed when the new event centre Satama-areena is completed in Kotka’s Kantasatama next autumn.

A boat hotel has emerged as an alternative to a proper hotel in Kantasatama.

– The sale of large events becomes difficult at the Port Arena without accommodation capacity, says Markku Hannonen.

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The transition to subcontracting is expected to be completed by the end of next year. Finnair’s CEO says the company will continue to work with cabin crew to find savings.

Airline Finnair is starting negotiations on changes related to the outsourcing of its cabin services on routes to Thailand and North America. The outsourcing of cabin services could lead to a reduction of around 450 jobs.

Finnair intends to move to subcontracting by the end of 2023. The company justifies its plan by the need to restore profitability.

Finnair has made big losses during the interest rate pandemic. In addition, the closure of Russian airspace is affecting the company’s results.

– We now need a genuine desire from the negotiators to jointly find solutions where the cabin service could continue to be carried out by our own personnel and job losses could be avoided. Discussion of alternatives is an essential part of the change negotiation process.

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