If your clients are hankering to experience the Arctic Summer, visit the home of Santa Claus and take in some of Scandinavia’s most spectacular coastline, then the latest offering from Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Express is sure to satisfy their itch.

Oneworld alliance partners Finnair and Qatar Airways have entered into a new long-term strategic cooperation on Nordic-Arabia flights between Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen, and Doha. The arrangement will see the airlines cooperate on a comprehensive codeshare agreement on passenger and cargo capacity.

Helsinki Partners, the destination marketing organisation for the Finnish capital, hosted Australian and Kiwi travel advisors on a city tour on the final day of Hurtigruten APAC’s first familiarisation to Norway, which concluded last week.

Finnair is set to launch new three times weekly services between Helsinki and Mumbai, India as the oneworld airline alliance member tweaks its schedules due to the Russian airspace no-fly zone.

Helsinki Airport has opened a new Terminal 2 extension this month featuring world-class facilities and a novel new airport name (keep scrolling).

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is expecting to open its maiden property in Finland in 2022. The 224-room Grand Hansa Hotel will become the first The Unbound Collection by Hyatt property in the Nordics.

Finnair is introducing a new direct service to Tokyo ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. The Finnish carrier already operates daily flights between Helsinki and Tokyo Narita. It will introduce daily services to Tokyo Haneda using Airbus A350-900 aircraft effective 29 March, 2020, subject to slot availability.

Finnair is extending its seasonal Guangzhou route to year-round operations and will operate between Helsinki and Guangzhou with two weekly frequencies during winter season 2019/2020. Finnair launched its Guangzhou route as a summer route in 2016, and as of this spring, will serve the route with its new Airbus A350 aircraft, adding both passenger and cargo capacity to the route.

Finnair will introduce thrice-weekly flights to Los Angeles, California, effective 31 March 2019 as part of the airline’s continuing growth strategy. The route to Los Angeles will be Finnair’s first US route to be regularly operated with the new Airbus A350 aircraft.