FILE - Santa Claus waves to his visitors as they leave his office in Santa Park near Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland, on Dec. 14, 2011.

The Santa Claus Village theme park. Rovaniemi, counted a record 1.2 million overnight visitors in 2023, almost 30 per cent growth on 2022, after rebounding from pandemic travel disruptions.

There is a place in the far northern Scandinavian hinterlands where elves impart there secrets to wide-eyed youngsters, a princess reigns over her crystalline abode and anyone who believes in the ...

Santa’s ‘hometown’ of Rovaniemi, ... The Santa Claus Village theme park, which attracts more than 600,000 people annually, is especially popular during the holiday season.

Shuffling across icy ground, tourist groups pour into Santa Claus Village, a winter-themed amusement park perched on the edge of the Arctic Circle, just seven kilometres north of Rovaniemi. (AP ...

Rovaniemi's Santa Claus Village theme park welcomes 600,000 visitors each year, but most of the demand comes around the Christmas period. Attractions there include taking a reindeer sleigh ride ...

Furious parents paid over £2,000 for their kids to meet Santa but many were left in tears after claims the travel company overbooked the pricey trip to Rovaniemi, Finland ...

Rovaniemi in Lapland has been the 'official' home of Santa Claus since 1985, and the winter wonderland is a perfect way to celebrate Christmas. It is from this village that Santa embarks on his ...

ROVANIEMI/HELSINKI - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not caught Finland unprepared. Even the Santa Claus theme park in his "hometown" in the snowy north is ready to stand down its elves and ...

Ilkka Lankinen, managing director of Santa Park in Rovaniemi, said the number of visitors from China had been rising for the past three years. Located on the Arctic Circle in Lapland, ...