On Helsinki’s food scene year 2011 stood for many things. It’s good to start the newly began year 2012 with first making a summary of last year’s interesting food phenomenon. Helsinki’s portion of Finland’s licensed restaurant total sale increased last year and was equivalent to a third. This statistic alone shows the importance of Helsinki [...]

Flada 13 is a cozy restaurant, led by the same masterminds as the ones behind the former illustrious restaurant Helsinge, serving homely food with some Italian influences. The restaurant serves both lunches and brunches on Kalevankatu. The name refers to the former name of Kalevankatu, Vladimirkatu that is, which in the mouth of a Helsinkian [...]

A total of 12 844 500 air passengers passed through Helsinki Airport in 2010. Last year’s air travel consisted of 10.7 million international traffic passengers and 2.2 million domestic passengers. On average 35 400 passengers and 230 flights per day covered the outgoing traffic leaving Friday to be the busiest day of the week. Helsinki Airport has on [...]

How has the Helsinki cityscape changed? And how have housing, work, free time, schooling etc. changed for the Helsinkians over the past hundred years? The 100th anniversary exhibition of the department by the name of City of Helsinki Urban Facts will show how the capital and the life of its citizens have changed. The changes [...]

According to preliminary information, a new record was set in 2010 for the number of overnight stays at Helsinki’s accommodation outlets, exceeding 3.1 million.

This year 247 international cruise ships arrived in Helsinki carrying with them approximately 340,000 passengers from 143 countries.

The number of overnight stays in Helsinki have grown faster than originally forecast in the first half of this year.

Nights at accommodation establishments in Helsinki were up 18.2% in July, compared with the year before. Nights increased among both domestic (+ 18.9%) and foreign visitors (+ 17.3%).