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Santa has already started his preparations in Lapland – protecting himself from winter viruses and making sure to engage enough elves.
On Thursday, nurse Tiia Kahkonen gave Santa Claus an influenza vaccine in her village of Rovaniemi, a town in the Arctic Circle, in northern Finland.
The sting is probably a good precaution, as the flu season coincides with the busiest time of the year in Lapland.
Last December, 390,000 foreign visitors spent the night in Finnish Lapland, an increase of almost 10% over the previous Christmas.
According to official statistics, the British were by far the largest group of Christmas holidaymakers. Follow Russian, French and German tourists.
Meanwhile, a recruitment agency in Finnish Lapland, located inside the Arctic Circle, has appealed to the Christmas elves to hordes of tourists who come to visit. to Santa Claus in his natural habitat during the winter months.
Prior experience is not essential, as the announcement, published by the company Lapland Staff, promises that the training will be provided "to the skills required for communication and communication."
Successful applicants will also receive tips on how to handle cold weather in northern Finland, where temperatures rarely reach zero degrees Celsius and can go down to minus 40 degrees.
Although Santa's reindeer handling is not a task, elves will have to gather groups of visitors on buses and entertain tourists. "Take care of the fireplace and pour hot juice" are also needed, as is the supervision of the toboggan run.
Tourism in Lapland has reached an all – time high in recent years, with visitors spending 3.5 million nights in Lapland year – round, compared with 2.6 million a decade earlier, according to Statistics Finland.
Much of the recent growth has been driven by tourism from Asia.
© 2018 AFP
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