I’ve been busy at work trying to plan the Lapland Adventures for winter of 2009. The travel business is a strange business. We’ve only just come back from the Lapland tour, and the season is still going strong up in Lapland, and now I’m trying to find out how much things will cost in 2009.
We’re trying very hard to keep the tour as affordable as possible, but it’s turning out to be easy. One of the providers is raising their prices with 20%, and while most are more conservative than that keeping the costs down for next year is going to be a struggle.
You might think that since next year we’re running more tours and hoping to have more people on them:
More tours + more people on tours = better offers from service providers.
Only not. If I was basing my estimation on inflation rate in Finland on the offers I’ve received this week, I would think that inflation was galloping a whooping 10% annually, and not 3% like the Bank of Finland tells us. Well, I guess I’ll just have to keep on haggling with them. Not that us Turku people are very good at that art, but no time to learn like the present, right?
I plan to do the Lapland tour thru Busabout. I can’t wait for the 2009 dates, so I can plan my Winter vacation in Finland. When is that going to be? Can you get me posted once you have the dates please? You know my email. THanks.
Rowena
USA