From March 27, travel time in a high-speed train Allegro on the route St. Petersburg - Helsinki will be reduced by 9 minutes, according to the press service of the company "Russian Railways" (RZD). Thus, the travel time is 3 hours and 27 minutes. At present, the train overcomes the distance from St. Petersburg to Helsinki for 3 hours 36 minutes. Allegro train consists of seven cars. The maximum operational speed of the train is 220 km / h.

Kotka Administration sent to the State Council of Finland a proposal to introduce a 72-hour visa-free regime for citizens of Russia. It is assumed that the effect of a visa-free regime will apply to Russian citizens, who arrive to Kotka on ferries. "This initiative should strengthen the development of the ferry service between St. Petersburg and Kotka, and increase the intensity of tourists' flow between Russia and Finland.

In winter, Russian tour operators will not organize charter trains to Santa Claus's home in Rovaniemi, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported. She explained that on winter holidays, tourists can get a regular train or plane. Before tour operator DSBW Tours put two charter trains to Rovaniemi on winter holidays, but last year was unable to fulfill them.

Santa has been forced to file for bankruptcy over a 200,000 Euro tax bill. Popular Lapland attraction has blamed a drop in tourists for poor sales In a move that will break the hearts of children across the world, the office of Santa Claus has been forced to file for bankruptcy in Lapland over a 200,000 Euro (£142,880) unpaid tax bill. The popular attraction, which fulfils the dream of children and their families from all over the world to meet the jolly man in red, has blamed a drop in tourists for its flagging sales. Every year around 300,000 tourists of 100 different nationalities visit Santa's Office - which claims to be the official one - in Finnish Lapland.

From September 1, 2015, Finnair airline cancels flights from Helsinki to Nizhniy Novgorod due to economic factors, according to a press release from the airline. "Demand for international destinations in Nizhny Novgorod region was weak, and therefore we decided to exclude this route from the schedule starting on September 1, 2015," the representative of resource management of Finnair Rikke Christensen said.

The Russians lost leadership by number of overnights in Finnish hotels to the tourists from Great Britain, as Yle says. According to data from Statistical Centre, the number of nights spent by Russian tourists at Finnish hotels in December 2014 dropped down by 52.1 per cent till 75.5 thousand.