Tampere is and will remain Finland's number one travel destination

When it comes to traveling, Tampere is the one to beat: Tampere was recently chosen as Finland’s number one travel destination, Tampere’s own Särkänniemi amusement park now has the newly minted Doghill theme park (which will undoubtedly become a popular destination among young families with children), and you can catch the people at the Tampere tourist office completely by surprise and still receive top notch service (Matkalehti, issue no. 5, 2013). This happened when a journalist from Matkalehti magazine (a travel magazine) gave a surprise call to four different tourist offices, namely the ones in Kuopio, Savonlinna, Tampere and Turku - all very popular travel destinations in Finland. Tampere tourist office broke the bank with its competent service flavored with enthusiasm and compliment, and thus received the highest score.

Additionally, the World’s Brightest photo competition is currently on-going. The photo competition harnesses the powers of social media, and it employs some of the most popular applications of the social media universe: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The competition started on May 19^th and will still last for the next three weeks. In its first week, the competition has attracted over 500 photo entries as well as around 1 000 000 Instagram profile posts!  So the competition is putting Tampere on the map on a global scale, and fast.

More information:
Päivi Myllykangas, CEO
Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Tredea
Tel. +358 (0)40 743 6417