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Kainuu tourism enterprises recorded 108 000 overnight stays in August. Accommodation sales totalled EUR 4.7 million. For the first time, the statistics include businesses with fewer than 20 beds.
The prices of hotel stays are on the rise. The electricity crisis is causing hotels to watch, for example, room temperatures and lighting.
The air temperature in the swimming pools of the Rantasalmelainen spa hotel Järvisydämi is 32 degrees. The spa is the tourist destination’s biggest source of energy. It is heated with ground heat, solar energy and lake heat.
Still, the spa hotel’s electricity bills are dizzying. Even now, Järvisydäme has a fixed-price electricity contract that pays six cents per kilowatt hour. The electricity bill is 400,000 euros per year.
– It’s the worst moment to break up after December. If the prices rise even to the euro as has been hinted at, anyone will realize that the conditions for the operation will end.
If the price of the euro really materializes, the annual electricity bill in Järvisydäme would be more than 6.5 million euros.
The tourism and restaurant industry is now in a historically difficult situation. Hotels all over Finland are looking for ways to save electricity.
There have been enough passengers on Finnair’s flights from Japan, South Korea and India since the summer when the countries ease travel restrictions. Japan will waive the visa requirement in October.
– They bathed in 24 saunas. There were so many people taking saunas that the Finnish guides who were there already started to complain that their skin can’t stand sitting on the boards like that, laughs Koivisto.
There are only enough saunas, as the number of Japanese tourists in Finland has started to increase rapidly after midsummer, when the country has eased travel restrictions. For example, Japanese people no longer have to take a PCR test when returning home. A bigger change will take place on October 11, when the visa requirement and the limit of 50,000 arriving passengers will end.
Japan is one of the last Asian countries to lift restrictions. Only China continues to impose strict restrictions.
– Japan and South Korea are open for travel, further south Singapore and Thailand are already fully open for most customers. Asia is starting to become a tourist destination in terms of corona restrictions in a situation where it was before the corona era, continues Tolvanen.
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The almost 10 kilometer long route has been a joint project of Kolar Municipality and Metsähallitus Nature Services.
According to the current schedule, Finnair flies six days a week between Kajaani and Helsinki with a total of 16 flights. In December, the number of flights will be increased for two days.
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