In summer 2018 (May-October) there were one million registered overnight stays in Lapland and the share of international overnight stays was nearly one-third of the total overnight stays.
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Summer tourism in Lapland is growing but the growth rate is not yet as fast as it has been during the winter. In 2018 in Lapland there were 2% more overnight stays compared to the year before, the growth rate was the same as in Finland in general. In Lapland a big share of tourists in summer are domestic, the biggest interational markets were Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Summer tourism has a lot of potential and at the moment tourism companies and organizations in Lapland are putting a lot of effort in developing the season.
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