Invest in Lieksa is a project administered by the municipality owned, not for profit development company Lieksan Kehitys Oy LieKe.

The purpose of the showcase is to highlight the potential tourism sites that can be suitable for development and substantial growth in and around the Finnish National Park of Koli and the municipality of Lieksa. 

In addition, we will present the free soft landing services to assist in the formation of your Finnish company. This will give you access to all available support and incentives (subjected to terms and conditions).

Those attendees that would like to further explore the sites presented and other opportunities will be invited to join the Invest in Lieksa team for detailed site visits during November & December 2021 

Attendees 

A small group of: 

• Nordic tourism owner/operators 
• Nordic tourism accommodation developers 
• Investors in tourism associated real estate (Nordics) 

Meeting Takeaways 

• Discover how the megatrends of sustainable tourism growth are represented in the Koli Vision 2050 
• Discover how the Koli National Park occupancy rate compares to Helsinki occupancy 
• Discover the key professional investment attraction contacts to be support your interest to visit the locations and to explore the opportunity 
• Discover how one of Finland's largest tourism operators sees the opportunities in the resort and how they would like to execute this. 

Program

10.50  Webinar room is open (Microsoft Teams) 

11.00  Welcome messages 

Presenter: Jarkko Määttänen, Mayor of Lieksa  

Presenter: Hans-Rune Wahlstrom, Consultant, Nordic Investment Management Ltd 

11.10 A high-level description of the tourism business in the National Park of Koli & municipality of Lieksa and the 2050 tourism vision

Presenter: Susanna Saastamoinen, Head of economic and business development, Municipality of Lieksa 

Presenter: Jarkko Määttänen, Mayor of Lieksa

11.40 Business Finland as a service to companies entering Finland 

Presenter: Hanna Lankkinen, Tourism & Consumer Business, Invest in Finland, Business Finland

11.55 Virtual coffee break   

12.00 Purnulahti Hotel location &  Käränkälampi Hotel location 

Presenter:  Teemu Vuori and Francois Duchastel, Voodoo Associates   

12.15 From distribution channel towards an investment case 

– a partnership model for Koli   

Presenter: Sami Päivike, CEO, Wild Nordic Finland 

12.30 The numbers & invitation to site visit program 

Presenter:  Anni Almqvist, Invest in Lieksa, Business Specialist 

                Carl Wideman, Invest in Lieksa, Investment & Finance

12.55 Closing words 

Presenter Invest in Lieksa Team