In Powerpark, the number of foreign visitors quadrupled compared to the previous peak year
Swedish tourists in particular found their way to the Powerpark amusement park in Kauhavan Alahärmä during the 2022 amusement park season.
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Almost 1,400 suitcases were left off Finnair flights – an exceptionally large disruption messed up baggage handling at Helsinki-Vantaa
Baggage handling was congested on Saturday morning and flights left late.
Lappeenranta Airport is hoping for funding from the Eastern Finland support package – negotiations are also taking place with large accommodation operators
Lappeenranta Airport has applied for a total of one million euros from the Eastern Finland support package for two years. It would partially replace the state support that did not come this year.
Etelä-Savo receives little direct support from Eastern Finland’s additional budget: \”This is not the end of the world,\” says provincial director Pentti Mäkinen sanoo maakuntajohtaja Pentti Mäkinen
The hotels in Åland were filled with Finnish tourists in the summer – the end of the year will be focused on Christmas tourism
In Åland, there will be a new Åland is twinkling Christmas events in November-December.
There is an excursion destination on the lake highlands of Häme, whose popularity is already endangering the area’s nature – now the municipality wants to get rid of mobile homes
Metsähallitus and the municipality of Lope are trying to restore order to the popular lake by closing forest roads with bollards and erecting signs prohibiting fires in places other than official campfire sites.
The beaches and forest paths of the exceptionally clear water Iso-Melkutti have been hard-wearing for the third summer already. The nature site is located in Kanta-Hämee in Lope.
The movement of large masses of the public has also brought unpleasant mild phenomena.
Tourism education lost young people – Ronja Rissanen was not frightened by the industry’s turbulence: \”You don’t know about the world, but you have to think positively\”
There is no immediate relief in sight for the labor shortage in the tourism industry, as education is not gaining traction. For example, in Rovaniemi, instead of the usual two groups, one small group started.
The uncertainty of the tourism industry came to the fore with the pandemic, when hotels and restaurants were closed in the middle of the boom. From the speed of a hundred to the wall, the situation in Lapland was described at that time.
In addition to the loss of employees, the consequences of the turbulence can be seen as a drop in the number of applicants for tourism education. While in 2018 there were almost 700 primary applicants for the joint application for the bachelor’s degree in tourism, this year there were around 450 of them.
In Rovaniemi, the drop was even steeper.
Even at Espoo Omni, the number of primary applicants for the joint application fell by almost half, at Turku Vocational Institute, on the other hand, there was only a slight decrease. The number of adult students coming through the continuous search has also decreased, although not as sharply as the number of young people thinking about their first profession.
– The decision was left to the last straw, the joint search was about to expire and we had to find a field. Different fields were presented at the school and that’s why the field of tourism rose above the others.
Rissanen’s interest was piqued by the idea of work close to people, where no two days are the same.
Tourism is said to be interesting, but it does not appear in the search statistics
– The industry needs educated people. Sure, some jobs are such that you can get by without training, but yes, training is very important.
The organization has established \”attraction working groups\” in different parts of Finland to think about, for example, how to attract high school students to the field. Lappi states that the tourism industry has always done well in surveys of young people.
– But we have to work so that people actually go into this field.
A tower hotel has been planned for two years in Lappeenranta – the plan change would be completed within a year at the earliest
Hotel Lappe’s tower would require a plan change. The extra layers in the company’s table drawer have been in preparation for years.
Central European interest in Lapland increases in winter – direct flights from Paris, Düsseldorf, Munich and Riga to Kittilä
Air France, Eurowings, Lufthansa and Air Baltic will fly to Kittilä next winter.
Kallaveti had a better than expected cruise summer
Ship entrepreneurs from Kuopio are quite satisfied with the cruise summer. Especially business and charter cruises cheered up the season.
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