Scandic Vaasa

Joutsenmerkki in Finnish, Svanen in Swedish. This is the official and most known environmental label of the Nordic countries. The label aims at enhancing a sustainable and responsible lifestyle. It steers to make environmental choices and helps companies to promote environmentally sustainable and concious in promoting their products. For a hotel, restaurant or kongresscenter to achieve the label a mindset based on lifespan is reqiured. The labelled companies get visibility in several channels.

Sustainable Travel Finland (STF) programme provides companies and destinations with a concrete toolkit for developing sustainable tourism, which makes it easier to systematically adopt sustainable measures and choices into the everyday life of a region or company. The programme is free of charge and designed for all tourism stakeholders in Finland.

Companies and destinations awarded with STF label have access to a continuous development model, the latest information on the sustainable travel development, marketing support, and additional visibility through Visit Finland’s channels.