News Finland Travel: Helsinki uses WeChat to encourage more Chinese tourists to see the real side of Finland
Helsinki has worked hard to become attractive to Chinese travellers. In June, the city’s tourism office launched an ambitious project called MyHelsinki – a digital tourist guide that operates through WeChat.
News Finland Travel: Mean Mums' Morgana O'Reilly on the lessons she's learned from travel
I was raised on the travel stories of my parents — hippies in the deserts ... My mother and I travelled to Finland, Turkey and Scotland when I was 11, then at 13 my father and I travelled down through ...
News Finland Travel: Finland Ambassador to Singapore Antti Vänskä Shares with us More About Finland
Ambassador Antti Vänskä: Most people know Finland as a travel destination or Santa Claus. Surprisingly, not a lot of people know that the word sauna comes from Finland, where we have almost 3 million ...
News Finland Travel: Head to Finland, the happiest place on Earth, where days can last three months
“Come to Finland,” they had said. “It’s the happiest place on Earth,” they had said. Blubbing away like a toddler, it really doesn’t feel like it to me. These tears of frustration are due to my ...
News Finland Travel: Savonlinja and Neste launch a low-emission Green Travel service for bus passengers
By paying a Green Travel surcharge of their own choosing, customers will be reducing their bus ride’s greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 90% compared to fossil diesel. This arrangement is the ...
News Finland Travel: Finland has a ‘big responsibility’ for biodiversity loss, says researcher
“Finland is dependent on imports and Finns travel a lot abroad, so Finns share a big responsibility for the state of nature in the world,“ says Kotiaho. “Finns are at the forefront of destroying the ...
News Finland Travel: A new direction of travel for the UK and Ireland
In 1952, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland agreed passport-free travel between their countries. They added the rights to reside and work in 1954 and to claim social security the following year. In ...
News Finland Travel: Electric vehicles and km-based car tax spark interest in Finland, survey finds
Most of the people owning diesel vehicles said they chose them because of the longer distances they can travel, as diesel is a relatively cheaper fuel in terms of kilometres per litre, compared to ...
