The capital of Finnish Lapland, Rovaniemi, happily calls itself the “official home town of Santa Claus”. But not everyone is ...
‘We are still in a growth phase; this is all new for people in Rovaniemi,’ says Pia Tuukkanen, who runs reindeer encounters ...
Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus Village, a ...
Overtourism has made it all the way to the “North Pole.” A small city in Finland dubbed the “official hometown of Santa Claus ...
Santa’s ‘hometown’ of Rovaniemi, Lapland joins the ranks of Barcelona and Amsterdam as droves flock there for Christmas.
Tourists are flocking to Lapland in Finland but locals are furious due to high rental prices and overcrowding.
Reports of pickpocketing incidents started coming in as the tourism season began at the beginning of December, according to ...
A record number of tourists have flocked to Santa Claus Village in Finnish Lapland amid growing concerns about over-tourism.
From Helsinki, take a connecting flight to Ivalo Airport, the closest airport to Inari. Flights to Ivalo are often less ...