The main purpose of Lahti Region Ltd (Visit Lahti) is to increase the tourism attractiveness of the region, attract more tourists to the area, and thus increase the region’s tourism income and tax revenue. The company’s tasks include marketing tourism, building a tourist image, promoting, selling and brokering tourist services, acquiring new events in cooperation with municipalities and developing tourism through projects. https://visitlahti.fi/en/

The three brave ladies represent a new way of presenting the Lahti region. They can also guide you on a longer trip in Finland or abroad. Meet the founding members of the association, Erja, Päivi and Jana. https://etcfin.fi/in-english/

Päivi works as a Senior Visitor Consultant for Salpakierto.

Salpakierto Ltd is a limited liability company owned by 9 municipalities, tasked with performing municipal waste management services in the region of the shareholder municipalities. These tasks include the reception, transportation, processing and recycling of waste, the development of waste management and the provision of information related to it. The company is part of Lahti Group. https://salpakierto.fi/en/

Pro Puu Association was founded in 1997, in Lahti Finland. It is a modern guild of wood professionals. The members of Pro Puu, with three honorary members, are cabinetmakers, designers and architects. Craftsmen and designers interested in the goals and objectives of the association may apply for membership. The members of Pro Puu, counting over 60 today are all wood professionals of their trade. https://propuu.fi/pro-puu-ry/?lang=en

Sibelius Hall is located by the beautiful Lake Vesijärvi. Sibelius Hall is a congress- and concert center that offers diverse services for both consumers and companies. Sibelius Hall was built in 2000 adjacent to an old factory building. The modern wooden architecture is combined with the old industrial history in the most interesting way. https://www.sibeliustalo.fi/sibelius-hall/?lang=en

okimaan Paroni was accepted to be part of the European Union-funded CE4RT project. CE4RT stands for Circular Economy for Regenerative Tourism – going beyond sustainability.

• The objective of the EU-funded CE4RT project is to DIRECTLY SUPPORT tourism SMEs transitioning to a CIRCULAR and REGENERATIVE tourism business model thus ensuring the future resilience of the sector.
• Collaborative across 5 countries funded through EISMEA (European Innovation and SME’s Executive Agency) Single Market Programme COSME-2021-TOURSME
• The program provides possibilities to training, one-to-one coaching, certification, and networking.

More information: https://ce4rt.euproject.site/

Results:

• Based on one2one coaching, the company achieved Good Travel Seal, an environmental certificate.
• Visit Finland granted Jokimaan Paroni the Sustainable Travel Finland label as a recognition of valuable and long-term work for sustainable tourism.
• The company has applied the training to all its tours and created new ideas for future sustainable tours.

Jokimaan Paroni is selected to be part of the EENergy-project. This project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Single Market Programme (SMP), with the aim to support SMEs to define an action plan to improve their energy efficiency performance and to carry out this action plan.

More info: https://www.eenergy-project.eu/

Results:

The energy consumption of the office has already dropped dramatically because of the renovation. The final results will be published in the end of the project.