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Nothern Lights in Lappland. Photo: Pixabay Tourism in Lapland in Finland is growing rapidly. Snow, scenery, ski tracks, ski slopes, the northern lights and Santa Claus will attract tourists to Lapland. The numbers speak the same language. Accommodation establishments in Lapland collected one-half of overnight stays by foreign tourists in December 2016, tells Statistics Finland . The number of recorded nights spent by foreign tourists at accommodation establishments in Lapland was 336,000, which was 26.5 per cent higher than in December 2015. Of these, most nights were spent by British visitors, 158,000. Their overnight stays increased by 28.1 per cent year-on-year.  Reindeers, photo: Pixabay. Overnight stays by tourists from Asia increased by as much as 53.6 per cent in Lapland and nearly 51,000 nights were recorded for them in December 2016.  British visitors emerged as the biggest foreign tourist group in the whole country in December. The retur...

The Hermitage in The Palace Square in Saint Petersburg. Photo: Sirpa Pääkkönen In recent years , the world's most visited museum has been the Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing, China. The annual number of visits has risen there up to more than 15 million. At the forefront of the world has long remained the Louvre in Paris (8.6 million visits in 2015). Northern European museums overwhelming number one is the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (3.7 million visits in 2015). The Forbidden City. Photo: Wikipedia. These data derive from Statistics Finland'scultural statistical table package. The Palace Museum in Beijing is located in the imperial palace of the consecutive Ming (1363-1644) and Qing (1644­-1911) dynasties. The architectural complex is also known as the Forbidden City in the middle of Beijing. The museum has vast holdings of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics and antiquities of the imperial collections. In 1987the museum was listed as a UNESCO Wor...

Karelian house, Bomba, Nurmes. Photos: Sirpa Pääkkönen Finland will celebrate its 100th birthday. Finland got independence 6 th December 1917. From late 12 th century Finland was an integral part of Sweden. In 1809 Finland was incorporated into the Russia Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. Following the 1917 Russian revolution Finland declared itself independent. Archipelago. So we’ll get a big celebration. What do foreigners usually know about Finland? We have thousands of lakes. In Lapland the sun will shine all night long in the summer, but in wintertime the darkness covers the country. If you are lucky you can see northern lights and they are amazing. Reindeer you’ll meet very likely and the Santa Clause in Lapland. That’s why children from all over the world love to travel to Lapland. You can also learn something about Finland by looking statistics from T he Statistics Center of Finland , Statistics Finland. Let’s see what we can find out. F...