11.841 border crossings in April compared with 7.764 in April last year. Both shopping in Rovaniemi and vacations at the ski-resort in Levi can explain the increase in numbers of people from the Murmansk Region visiting Lapland.
A total of 50.984 border crossings took place in the first four months of 2011, up from 35.212 the same period in 2010. The increase is 45% percent, shows the statistics from the Finnish border guards.
