A tourist season that stretches from October to March has been anything but jolly for some residents of the “Official ...

On the edge of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland, the ‘official home of Santa Claus’ welcomes over 600,000 visitors during the festive period alone each year, all eager for the chance to ...

I’m hanging on for dear life as Janne Honkanen, the owner of Octola Private Wilderness in Finland’s far north Lapland, zooms us into a skidding drift on a frozen lake.

Lapland covers a vast area of northern Finland, Sweden and Norway but it ... was chosen as an alternative in 1985. Today, the Santa Claus Village is the city’s top tourist attraction.

After reporting on Saturday that Murray Travel was considering organising a special day trip to Lapland - with a direct ...

Johan Juujärvi is the manager of Rovaniemi Airport, in the capital of Lapland in northern Finland ... Rovaniemi is the home of Santa Claus. “Just before Christmas, we have lots of people ...

Santa Claus? Why is a small town in the midwest of America - more than 4,300 miles (6,920km) from Lapland - called Santa Claus? Maybe we should ask its chief elf. Pat Koch (pronounced ‘Cook ...

With a return day flight connecting the Highland capital to Rovaniemi in Finland - hailed as the official home of Santa Claus ...

It happens in Lapland, which is in a country called Finland. Harry and Halle have ... Explain to the pupils that Santa Claus is said to live in Lapland. Ask the pupils to point on a globe to ...

A tourist season that stretches from October to March has been anything but jolly for some residents of the “Official ...

Tourists having their picture taken with one of the Santas at Santa Claus Village ... in World War II, Finland allied with the Nazis, who built a big base in Rovaniemi, a Lapland railway hub.