Articles tagged “finland”

Tourism

China’s Tencent Partners With Helsinki to Help Chinese Travelers Live Like Locals

Chinese travelers are the world's largest outbound travel market. With the launch of Helsinki's WeChat collaboration, it seems the days of asking them to pay cash in a destination are numbered.

Rosie Spinks, Skift | 5 years ago

Business Travel

Imperiled Thomas Cook in Talks to Sell Nordics Division

Given that Thomas Cook released a statement about the potential sale, this looks pretty serious. But it begs the question: Just what will Thomas Cook have left if and when it sells its airlines and Nordics divisions?

Patrick Whyte, Skift | 5 years ago

SkiftX

New Data Deck: State of Travel 2015, Europe

From overarching trends to the ever-increasing impact of mobile and online technology — and offering a deep look at what’s happening in every critical travel vertical — this is the state of the travel industry in Europe in 2015.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 10 years ago

Media and PR

Which Nordic Nations Are Making Friends Fastest on Twitter?

It's not all about friends, but for destinations it is about communicating to as many of your target audiences as you can in a language they can understand.

Joyce Manalo, Skift | 10 years ago

Tourism

6 Tourism Trends We Tracked at Skift This Week

Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Visit Finland Takes Inspiration From John Travolta to Give You a Finnish Name

Your editor -- recently renamed Ilmari Aalto -- believes this is a fun way to get people talking about a country they don't usually talk about -- and mispronounce many names when they do.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 11 years ago

Ground Transport

Helsinki Humanizes Public Transportation With a Beautiful Photo Project

We'd love to see similar projects done by cities around the world, and then have them use the participants' stories and suggestions to make public transportation a little better every year.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

Qatar considers building floating Finnish hotels to handle World Cup demand

Nothing is too new or too unique to be passed on by Qatar and it is sure to be ramping up its efforts to find one-of-a-kind attractions in the years leading up to the 2022 World Cup.

AllArabianBusiness.com Staff, HotelierMiddleEast.com | 12 years ago

Airlines

Finland shows off its knack for design with a new exhibition in Helsinki Airport

Finland is living up to its title as Word Design Capital and making an extra effort in the travel sector to brand itself as such to foreigners.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Finland proves it’s cooler than you (again), opens temporary pop-down restaurant in limestone mine

What with their oil wealth and wise city planning, Scandinavian countries have been running circles around the rest of the world with their inventive, well, everything. Here the Finns pull off a pop-up restaurant in an unlikely place -- only better.

Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press | 12 years ago