Vuoksi's principles of sustainable tourism

The principles created by the Visit Vuoksi project, which ended at the end of June, have been formed using Visit Finland's sustainable tourism principles and the Glasgow declaration, which The city of Imatra signed in 2022.

The principles of sustainable use of Vuoksi have been created together with environmental experts. The townspeople were also able to comment on the principles at the Vuoksi discussion meeting held on May 31.5.2023, 15.6.2023, and the finished principles were presented at the project's final seminar on June XNUMX, XNUMX.

- These more general instructions for the sustainable use of Vuoksi are intended to support entrepreneurs in the development of sustainable tourism and for tourists coming here to consider what sustainable tourism in Vuoksi could mean in practice, says the project manager Minna Kähtävä-Marttinen from the city of Imatra.

The project has piloted two environmentally friendly winter events. The events are organized in cooperation with a local business group. The leader of the group has been Vuoksi fishing park.

In the events, Vuoksi's guidelines for organizing an environmentally friendly event were tested.

- The purpose of the project has been to bring out and establish the ways of sustainable tourism well in advance of the opening of the national wilderness and nature culture museum, says Minna.

We want to develop diving tourism in Vuoki

The ruins of the Linnankoski power plant were also developed as a diving destination in the Visit Vuoksi project.

- We wanted to improve the accessibility of the site. For example, neither the city nor the Museum Agency knew the exact coordinates of the power plant, Minna says.

- There was also no scaled "base map" of the power plant ruin, on the basis of which the diving could have been planned. Now a scaled picture map has been made, so you can get a picture of the ruins of the power plant. The map can be printed from the city's website, he continues.

During the project, garbage thrown by people over the years was removed by diving from and around the ruins of the Linnankoski power plant. The diving was done by hand by Jussi Honka, entrepreneur of WaterSki-Zoo from Imatra.

See pictures of the power plant under the surface of Vuoksi on the website of the Visit Vuoksi project.

CBC Visit For | the city of Imatra

For more information:

project manager Minna Kähtävä-Marttinen, minna. kahtava-marttinenimatra.fi (minna[dot]kahtava-marttinen[at]imatra[dot]fi), tel. 020 617 2256