Kuopio Tourist Service Ltd. (Kuopion Matkailupalvelu Oy)

Kuopio Tourist Service is a tourism development company, owned by the city of Kuopio and founded in 1974. The company strives for strong growth of tourism in the Kuopio region and recognition as a significant field of economy. The income from tourism business, employment opportunities, impact of positive image, and national and international visibility all contribute to the welfare of the region. Kuopio Tourist Service includes administration and marketing, Kuopio Tourist Info, and Holiday Centre Rauhalahti.

Kuopio Tourist Info

Kuopio Tourist Info is conveniently located in the heart of the city by the market place. The office is open all year round, and the tourist advisors are at your service. In the summertime, there are extra tourist advisors patrolling the streets around the market place and harbour to help both Finnish and foreign visitors.

The main task of Kuopio Tourist Info is to advise the tourists. The office also maintains and updates the official tourism website www.visitlakeland.fi with Finnish, English, German, and Russian entries and handles electric communication. The office acts as a hub between different tourist services, entrepreneurs, and information. In addition, it updates data and statistics related to tourism.

Kuopio Tourist Info has a selection of maps, brochures, and information leaflets of places of interest and events in Kuopio and North Savo region, as well as maps of other major Finnish cities. You are welcome to drop by, and we are happy to help you!

Marketing

The marketing unit is responsible for image and framework marketing of the city of Kuopio in Finland and abroad. Its special task is communication with professional travel organizers, the media, and other partners and interest groups. The marketing unit carries out joint marketing measures, included in the marking plan, mainly on fifty-fifty basis, together with the city of Kuopio, travel business, and its other interest groups. The marketing plan is crafted jointly with the travel sphere. The marketing unit contributes to the increasing publicity of Kuopio, guiding the customer stream to become clients for tourist service providers through commercial sales channels.

Congress Kuopio

The task of congress unit is to encourage local parties in Kuopio region to apply for and to organize conferences, trainings, congresses, and other events.  Congress Kuopio offers the organizers a congress office and services of other meeting- and congress providers in order to create successful events with cost equivalence principle. Congress Kuopio acts as a partner and coordinating organ, and its members include, among others, conference and congress hotels, program providers, Kuopio Music Centre, restaurant and cateting chain Kanresta Ltd., and Kuopio Travel Services. Congress Kuopio develops electric marketing and seeks opportunities to organize locally produced new conferences in Kuopio area.

Sales

Kuopio Tourist Service Ltd. also handles group reservations for companies, associations, and organizations, and offers complete programmes, including guided tours, transportation, and meals.

www.visitlakeland.fi

Kuopio Tourist Service is responsible for the regional tourism portal visitlakeland.fi, which includes the tourist information of the whole North Savo Region (Pohjois-Savo), 21 cities and communities altogether.