Kari Halonen

LGBTIQ workshop postponed to April 2025

We hope this message reach you well that we postponed the LGBTIQ workshop event from 7.10.2024 to April 2025. Potential date is 28.4.2025 but we will confirm this later in October 2025. The reason to postpone the event was to get all Buyers interested in different Pre and Post Tour programmes and to get them…

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How to choose right target market areas – risk management needed

For decades, I have been thinking about risk management when choosing market areas. In my opinion, there are risks involved in all international tourism markets. There are political risks in some markets, which could lead to a complete interruption of tourism flows to the Baltic and Nordic countries. At times, the market may be associated…

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Salla Tourism Marketing Association won sustainable tourism award organized by Skål International Area Europe

Today was the Skål International Area Europe Annual Meeting. During the event were also Skål International Europe Sustainable Tourism Awards given. There were 4 awards delivered of one of those came to Northern Europe. Salla Tourism Marketing Association received award because their campaign “Give Back to Local Nature”. Ms. Heli Karjalainen, spokesperson and associated in…

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Winners of Summer Fun Workshop Lucky Draw Lottery

Here are winners of Summer Fun Workshop Lucky Draw Lottery Sven Erfurt – Eckerö Line Tanya Singh – Santa Sport Iram Ajmal – Sokos Hotels Riina Rauts – Santa’s Hotels Natalja Jokinen – Hotel Kalevala Weidan Zhou – Hotel Järvisydän Marita Krumina – Kalajoki Resort Uwe Giese – Hotel Haaga Lucky Mallikaarachichi – Hotel Runo…

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Southeast Asian and Oceania Outbound Travel Online Workshop 19.11 – 20.11.2024!

The five key outbound travel markets in the South-East Asian region: Hongkong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and The Philippines have shown tremendous growth over the past several years, generating over 40 million outbound departures and USD 53 billion outbound travel expenditure. Europe is the most aspirational holiday spot among long-haul destinations for SouthEast Asian travellers.…

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Free webinars in September and October 2024

We organize several interesting and free webinars in September and. All are little bit different areas of tourism marketing operations. All these webinars takes 30 – 45 60 minutes. Webinars are conducted in English. When doing registration you can direct questions to Keynote Speakers beforehand.  In the registration site you can choose which of those…

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3 New Sales Visits in Europe November – December 2024

Participate in three separate sales visits in Denmark, France and Germany! Similarities to all these three events are that duration is 2 days and there are 4 meetings/day organized. Additionally we have 3 different price categories: DMO can create a group from it’s area max. to 6 participants and the event will be organized privately for…

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Japan to Implement Mandatory Online Travel Authorization for Visa Free Travelers from 71 Countries by 2030

Japan will soon require travelers from 71 visa-free countries, including Baltic and Nordic countries, to obtain online travel authorization before entering the country. Japan’s government plans to allocate funding for a new travel authorization system in next year’s budget, with the initiative expected to be fully operational by 2030. This system is designed to enhance…

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Keys for successful digital marketing

“Digital marketing is no different from any other communication to potential customers. The difference is that you can better measure the impact and make changes easily. Having a partner in digital marketing requires constant conversation and good communication. Digital marketing works better when there is good content on your webpage and other channels.”, says our…

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Free Sustainable Travel Event in Espoo 22.8.2024

GLO Hotel Sello, Espoo is organizing an interesting and topical event about CSRD, i.e. the corporate sustainable development reporting directive and its effects on tourism. Panu Hämäri is there as an expert. At the same time, we get to know GLO Hotel Sello’s sustainable development program and talk about Skål International’s tourism sustainable development competition.…

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