Lahden seutu – Lahti Region Ltd.

According to the financier agreement effective as at 1 January 2019, the primary task of the company Lahti Region Ltd (Visit Lahti) is to enhance the region’s attractiveness for tourism, increase tourist flows and thereby increase the region’s income from tourism as well as tax revenues. The main functional entities within the company are: tourism marketing, tourism image building, sales and brokerage of tourism services, acquisition of new events jointly with municipalities as well as tourism development in keeping with the strategy and decisions specified by the company’s Board of Directors.

The business concept of the company is based on the Lahti Region’s competitiveness strategy as well as the regional tourism strategy.

LFT Lakeland Finland Tours (auxiliary company name) is a unit, through which the company exercises tourism service sales and brokerage operations across regional boundaries. Our service selection includes, for instance, event-related accommodation bookings, transportation, guide services, train tickets, city sightseeing tours, entrance tickets to attractions and various thematic guided tours and package holidays. The travel organiser responsible for package holidays is Lahti Region Ltd. The package holidays are covered by package travel guarantees placed with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority under registration number 2506/13/MJ.

In connection with Lahti Region Ltd, there are also the Salpausselkä Geopark unit and the unit for major international events, Sport Event Management Finland, funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, five sports cities – Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä and Lahti – and the Sports Institute Foundation and Association. In addition, the company manages the Lakeland Finland project that encompasses five regions (Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme, Pirkanmaa, Central Finland, North Karelia) and aims at productising tourism service packages that cross regional boundaries and are targeted at international markets.