Summer tourism season in full force, businesses in northern Finnish Lapland have struggled with filling in their job vacancies. It is not uncommon for more remote areas to struggle with recruitment difficulties, especially in the healthcare sector, but pandemic lockdowns seem to have caused a wider problem.
According to the municipal manager of Utsjoki, Taina Pieski, this problem is global and not specific to Lapland. “The travel industry is in crisis globally, since many…