Visitor Monitoring
Metsähallitus, Parks & Wildlife Finland collects visitation data of the most popular state-owned protected and hiking areas in its administration. The data is collected by many different methods. Visitor counters, for example, are used to obtain information on the amount of use on trails and hiking facilities. Visitor surveys are implemented to obtain information on the types of visitors that visit protected areas, their needs and opinions on services etc.
There were about 3.5 million visits to Finnish national parks in 2025. The total number of visits to all Parks & Wildlife Finland’s areas, nature centres and heritage farms was about 8.4 million.
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- Status of visitation numbers
- Visitation numbers
- Economic benefits of national parks
- A manual targeted at managers of Nordic and Baltic nature areas includes guidelines, recommendations and examples on visitor monitoring methodologies.