The May Day weekend could help restaurants that have fallen on hard times.
The Kappeli terrace in Helsinki is expected to be buzzing on May Day weekend.
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May Day brunches usually keep restaurants busy, but coronavirus restrictions are preventing tables from fully booking up. To attract customers, restaurants are setting up outdoor eating spaces and May Day to-go bags.
The bulk of all business is expected for Saturday. Our tables are well-reserved for Saturday, especially for brunch, said director of SOK s accommodation and catering chain management,
Harri Havia.
Around 70 percent of SOK’s 500 restaurants and bars will be open for business over the weekend. Their main focus is on establishments serving food.
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The tabloid Ilta-Sanomat writes that a mention by Prime Minister
Sanna Marin (SDP) on Monday that the government may have to consider measures restricting fundamental rights in practice was a reference to the possible introduction of curfews and restrictions on movement.
The paper notes that Marin added that preparatory work on the issue is being carried out by government officials, and that the work began before the start of this year.
One model for restricting the movement of the population could be a kind of curfew in the worst-affected areas of the epidemic, such as individual localities, according to the prime minister.
Finland s travel sector took â¬7bn hit in 2020, ministry reports
A boom in domestic tourism helped the tourism industry somewhat last summer, but not for long.
Amid travel restrictions and the looming threat of coronavirus, many residents decided to spend their summer holidays in Finland last summer.
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The coronavirus pandemic caused a more-than-40-percent drop in travel spending in Finland, according to the economic affairs and employment ministry.
The ministry said that tourists, both foreign and domestic, spent 9.3 billion euros in Finland last year, or nearly seven billion euros less than holidaymakers spent in the Nordic country in 2019.