Shuffling across icy ground, tourist groups pour into Santa Claus Village, a winter-themed amusement park perched on the edge ...

Rovaniemi, Finland AP — Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa ...

Santa’s ‘hometown’ of Rovaniemi, Lapland joins the ranks of Barcelona and Amsterdam as droves flock there for Christmas.

‘We are still in a growth phase; this is all new for people in Rovaniemi,’ says Pia Tuukkanen, who runs reindeer encounters just 30 minutes outside Rovaniemi. She says running tours from her peaceful ...

Former Bay of Plenty teacher Virginija Werder has been working as an elf in a Santa Claus village in Rovaniemi, near the ...

Located on the Arctic Circle, Rovaniemi is proudly known as the "official hometown of Santa Claus“. Visitors flock here from ...

While traveling in Finland, I took the Santa Claus Express from Helsinki to Lapland. The $73 train was beautiful, but there ...

Overtourism has made it all the way to the “North Pole.” A small city in Finland dubbed the “official hometown of Santa Claus ...

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.

Rovaniemi, Finland AP — Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus Village, a winter-themed amusement park perched on the edge of ...