Tourism

With the change of ownership, Hotel Kajanus is returning to its roots – listen: the old name will remain, but changes are also planned

In the future, Hotel Kajanus will be part of the family business Peerâ Hotels

Vesa Palokari, Hilla-Rina Palokari and Ollis Leppänen in the yard of the hotel Kajanus.
In the future, the family business Peerâ Hotels will be at the helm of Hotel Kajanus

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Lentomotti in Kainuu is over: this batch of flights is known until the summer of 2023

Entrepreneurs were able to influence the shifts. The fact that we don’t know if we will fly to Kajaani in a year makes it difficult for tourism entrepreneurs to sell.

Lentomotti has ended again in Kainuu, when the first flight from Kajaani to Helsinki left early this morning.

State-supported air traffic will continue between Kajaani and Helsinki until the end of July next year. Sometimes we fly on all other days except Saturdays. Currently, the busiest day is Friday, when there are four flights.

According to entrepreneurs in Kainuu, the flight shifts are tolerable, and they take into account the needs of tourism companies in particular.

In Kajaani, we were in an airplane for the first time in the early stages of the corona pandemic, in the spring of 2020.

The Kainuu flight boom that started at the time of Corona ended in May 2021, when the Danish airline DAT started flights between Kajaani and Helsinki.

In the video at the place of the main picture, you can see the atmosphere of May 2021 from the end of the flight demo.

Now Finnair won the flights in the competition. Entrepreneurs think it’s a good thing, because Finnair has good onward connections.

*The subject can be discussed until Tuesday, November 1st at 11 p.m.*

*Read more* *News from Kainuu* *Yle Uutisten online.*

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Entrepreneurs from Ostrobothnia are dissatisfied with insufficient air connections – a large number also believe that the pandemic has permanently reduced air traffic

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Let’s think about how this valuable environment could be used in Varkaus – Yle visited a unique, 200-year-old industrial milieu

The Old Varkaus area is a nationally significant built cultural environment.

In Varkaus in Pohjois Savo, they want to raise the city’s old industrial environment to people’s awareness. Theft has more than 200 years of industrial history.

Future clinics have been organized this week in the culturally historically valuable old Varkaus area. Their idea has been to think especially about the fate of Tehtaa’s school, which is approaching a hundred years of age. Spaces for the Varkaus museum, for example, have been planned for the school.

In Yle’s live broadcast on Friday, it was revealed that remote work spaces and a cafeteria have also been proposed for the school.

A woman dressed in red jumps from a blue wooden pole in a light, bright concrete house.
Hanna-Kaisa Melaranta considers Tehtaa’s school to be one of the symbols of theft. Inside the school, he is startled by a stairwell post that has been jumped by thousands of schoolchildren over the years.

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The new beach plan of Inari Miesniemi received criticism from the public – a cottager: \”They say that the area will become a local Disney World\”

A figure from the hotel and northern lights lodge resort rising to Miesniemi in Inari.
A big hotel, northern lights huts and a sauna world would be built in Miesniemi. The capacity of the area would be about one hundred tourists at a time.

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Jasper Pääkkönen put his prestige on the line – now he arrived to see what he got: \”The results are absolutely incredible\”

A new important salmon river is emerging on the eastern border, which Jasper Pääkkönen played a significant part in releasing. A similar population of lake salmon cannot be found elsewhere in Finland.

Kapea Hiitolanjoki is an important salmon river in Finland that used to be next to Tenojoki. It has been dammed for over a hundred years by three different dams, which is why the lake salmon rising from Laatoka have not been able to reach their ancient spawning grounds.

Now the return of the fish to their native areas is a little closer to being realized again, after one of the Hiitolanjoki dams has been dismantled.

Lahnasenkoski’s more than hundred-year-old hydroelectric dam is already the second dam that was dismantled as part of the restoration of Hiitolanjoki.

Map showing the three power plants Lahnasenkoski, Ritakoski and Kangaskoski located on Hiitolanjoki.
Two of the old hydroelectric dams have now been dismantled, Kangaskoski dam and Lahnasenkoski dam. The Ritalankoski dam will be released next year.

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Safari guides and ski resort workers were left without a collective agreement – the contract-free status begins at the beginning of November

Skiers in front of the lift in Levi on the first slope day of the 2022 season.
The collective agreement of the ski center industry affects, among other things, slope workers, ticket sales and equipment rental workers, and ski instructors. The picture shows skiers in Levi on the first day of the 2022 season.

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Travelers can immerse themselves in a scary and mythical story – a nature route and virtual reality combine on the new caves and ravines route

The completed route goes around rugged landscapes in the middle of gorges and also passes through caves. The virtual story coming to Tervola’s Kätkävaara, utilizing Finnish folklore, is aimed at adults.

In Tervola, the only high-quality entity in Finland that combines a nature trail and virtual reality is being made. In Kätkävaara, Tervola, located in the southern part of Lapland, the Caves and Ravines route is currently being built, which will include a story based on mythology that uses virtual reality for adults.

The story is built in cooperation with Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences’ FrostBit laboratory.

The purpose is that a person hiking can put on headphones, follow the route and become enlivened by the story.

– He can then listen to what might have happened here at some point.

The story follows the traveler with the help of positioning.

– The idea is that the story progresses as it goes here.

Something other than a traditional info tour

It is a unique entity, even on the scale of Finland.

– This is not the kind of information tour where facts or science are told, but a story that you can relate to, Valkama clarifies.

The story is aimed at adults, as the route is difficult to travel.

– Yes, you might learn something from it, but above all, it’s an exciting story that might even heat you up a bit.

Valkama still keeps the plot of the story a secret, but hints that it is related to the ancient history of the region.

– Here in the region there is quite a lot of Finnish mythological background. Whatever creatures have moved here, that’s what we strive for.

The open roof of the cave in Kätkävaara, Tervola.
The largest cave on the route has an open roof with steep walls several meters high.

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