Finland dmc
for the luxury travel trade
Tervetuloa! We are Nordic Privé. Most of our team is based in Finland and we plan private journeys across Lapland, Lakeland, Helsinki and the archipelago, in every month of the year, for travel advisors and tour operators. If your client wants more than one country, we can take the journey across the Nordics too.
A Finland DMC — for the extra mile
You know what it is to hand a client to a DMC and wait for the reply. So do we. We have spent decades on the agency side, choosing DMCs around the world, working alongside them and calling on them when something went wrong. What counted every time was how quickly they answered and how they behaved under pressure. When you trust us with a VIP client, we know what you are putting on the line. Our guides in Finland and our regional partners are chosen on the same terms.
We love the art of travel, and we are proud to share the experiences of our home regions with new friends and guests. No trip is ever the same, and we take great pleasure in the chance to be creative — curating, shaping, building, connecting and reinventing. This sector never gets old. While some places grow stale, exciting new possibilities open elsewhere. Travel is transformative when it is done right.
Extensive agency-side experience on the team.
Nordic Privé Thailand rep office caters to Far East and Southeast Asia partners.
Our India rep office caters to South Asia & Middle East partners.
Magic all year round, and we have you covered in every season.
Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Greenland on a single booking.
Registered and bonded in Finland. Nordic Privé is the inbound department of Mandala Travel. We hold an AAA credit rating and are a member of SMAL, the association of the Finnish travel trade.
Who we work with
Trade only. We never sell direct to travellers, so we will not compete with you for your own client.
Luxury travel advisors
Independent travel designers and consortium-affiliated advisors selling Finland to high-end clients.
Tour operators & wholesalers
Programme-building at volume, net rates, white-label documentation and season-long contracting.
MICE & incentive houses
Exclusive-use lodges, charter flights, award trips and events for groups of several hundred.
Luxury cruise lines
Private shore excursions in Helsinki and the northern ports, built around your call window.
What a Finland DMC does for you
We are the tour operator on the ground, and your clients never need to know we exist. Send us a brief and we will build the programme behind it: accommodation, transfers, guides, permits, meals, activities, the finer details and support around the clock, all handed to you to present under your own name. You keep the client relationship. We drive the roads, hold the rooms, and answer the phone at night when a flight is delayed.
Our team is made up of senior Finland and Nordic luxury travel experts with decades of experience. We have hosted many VIPs and HNWIs for whom security, privacy and confidentiality matter a great deal.
Tailor-Made Itineraries
Tailor-made FIT and private-group programmes, costed and built from scratch around what your client wants.
Exclusive Access
Wilderness cabins and private houses that never appear on a booking site. We reach them through people we know.
Deep Local Knowledge
We know people who know people. We can match you with the right experts and the right hosts to take a journey to a more personal level.
The Process
The Brief
The Proposal
The Booking
Confirm and pay the deposit, and we start booking the rooms, guides and permits. The client relationship stays yours.
On the Ground
Our team runs the programme on the ground with support 24 hours a day. Your travellers deal with our guides, and we call you if anything needs a decision.
Destinations in Finland
Rovaniemi
Santa Claus Village sits on the Arctic Circle at 66°33′N. Land here, see the Christmas side of Lapland, then head north.
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Saariselkä
Sleep in a heated glass-roofed cabin on the edge of Urho Kekkonen National Park, 2,550 sq km of wilderness.
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Levi
Kittilä airport is 15 km from the lifts, so you can land at midday and be on a snowmobile the same afternoon.
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Ylläs
Finland's highest ski fell at 718 metres, with a small village at each end and trails running into a national park.
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Pyhä & Luosto
Fells protected since 1938, an amethyst mine you can dig in, and very little light for miles around.
Ivalo & Inari
Lake Inari has more than 3,000 islands in it. Ivalo is the northern gateway by air, and the road runs on from there to the Arctic Ocean.
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Enontekiö & Kilpisjärvi
Climb Saana at 1,029 metres, or walk out to the cairn where Finland, Sweden and Norway meet.
Kuusamo & Ruka
Walk the 82-km Karhunkierros through Oulanka's gorges, or come in September when the ruska turns the forest red.
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Syöte
Finland's southernmost fell. Snow-laden crown forest, very quiet, and about two hours from Oulu.
Eastern Finland
Spend a night in a hide in the Kuhmo taiga watching for brown bear and wolverine. There are a couple of thousand bears in Finland.
Kemi
Go out on a working icebreaker on the frozen Gulf of Bothnia, then put on a survival suit and float in the ice.
Lakeland
Lake Saimaa is the fourth largest in Europe. Take a villa on the shore, with a sauna by the water.
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Helsinki
Design, good food and an island sea fortress, with ferries to Suomenlinna from Market Square
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Archipelago Sea
Around 20,000 islands, more than any archipelago on earth. Sail it, eat well along the way, and do it under the midnight sun.
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Regions of Finland we operate in
Finnish Lapland
Our busiest region and the base for most winter programmes. Four or five nights is enough for two aurora attempts, a husky day and a reindeer farm without rushing anyone.
Rovaniemi
The Christmas one. Two nights is usually plenty, and we run the Santa side privately and early in the day to stay ahead of the coaches.
Levi
For clients who want something different every day, and for families with a range of ages. Combines well with Inari if they also want a few quiet nights.
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Ylläs
Skiing or walking all day with almost nobody about. Quieter than Levi, and an hour further from the airport, so plan the arrival carefully.
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Inari & Saariselkä
The far north. This is where we send clients who want Sámi culture and dark skies rather than lifts and restaurants.
Ruka & Kuusamo
Bears, mainly. Hide nights run through the summer, and clients almost always want a night either side for the forest and the rivers.
Finnish Lakeland
A slow summer week in a private villa with its own sauna and a boat. Works best with two nights in Helsinki at one end.
Turku & the Archipelago
Private sailing and island dining, inside a season of about ten weeks and very little outside it. Book this one early.
Helsinki & Archipelago
Where almost every Finland programme starts or ends. Two nights covers design, dinner and a sauna before the flight north.
Signature experiences for luxury clients
Finland in all four seasons,
not just aurora season
We operate in all twelve months: spring snow, the midnight sun and the ruska autumn as well as the aurora season. The shoulder months are quieter and the rates are better.
Polar Night & Aurora
Aurora season. Glass igloos, husky and reindeer sledding, Santa in Rovaniemi. Lapland sits between −10°C and −30°C, and around midwinter there are only a few hours of blue twilight instead of daylight.
Finnish Lapland →Spring Snow & Breakup
Snow holds in the north through April, with twenty hours of daylight on it, and rates come down. The Lakeland ice breaks up during May, so leave the south until later.
Levi →Midnight Sun
North of the Arctic Circle the sun does not set for weeks. Sauna, swimming, archipelago sailing and bear hides, and mosquitoes in July. Very few international clients, and the lowest rates of the year.
Read: Finland in summer →Ruska & First Snow
Ruska lasts two or three weeks in September, the aurora returns once the skies are dark again, and the first snow falls in Lapland in November. A good window for repeat clients.
Read: Finland in autumn →Everything here is first-hand
Our team has driven these roads, stayed in these cabins and run these programmes. That is how we know which road becomes impassable in a thaw, and which guide to call at −30°C when a family with a four-year-old needs a shorter day.
We work with the travel trade only. A small, experienced team in Finland that answers the phone.
- ✓ Experienced specialists who know Finland well
- ✓ A team that has worked the agency side and knows how you sell
- ✓ Fully bonded DMC based in Finland
- ✓ Access to properties and experiences that are not publicly available
- ✓ Complete discretion — your name, your relationship, always
- ✓ Senior specialist support throughout every journey
Three client briefs
We designed an activity-filled week with a private e-snowmobile safari, e-fat biking, ice climbing, sauna sessions, huskies and degustation dinners.
Curated multi-country Nordic journeys
Finland is where we are based and the country we operate directly. Very few clients want only one country, so fly them into Helsinki, run Lapland for a few nights, then take them on to the Tromso, Lofoten Islands or down to Stockholm. We plan and coordinate the whole itinerary, and the ground handling outside Finland is done by local partners we have vetted and use season after season.
For you that means one point of contact, one set of documents and one invoice, however many borders the itinerary crosses. We do the cross-border planning.
Working with a Finland DMC
What does a Finland DMC actually do?
A destination management company is your operator on the ground. We contract the accommodation, local partners, guides, vehicles, permits and activities, build the day-by-day programme, and coordinate it in-destination while your client is travelling. Everything is presented under your own brand if you wish.
Do you sell direct to travellers?
Nordic Privé works exclusively through b2b partners who are travel advisors, tour operators, incentive houses and cruise lines. Your traveller will not find our rates online.
Can you handle journeys outside Finland?
Yes. Beyond Finland we cover Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Denmark & the Baltic countries. Finland is the one we run ourselves; elsewhere we build the itinerary and manage it end to end, with partners we have used for years handling the ground. Everything still comes through us.
Do you operate outside the winter season?
Yes. Winter is the busiest season but not the only one we operate. Summer and the shoulder months bring far fewer international visitors, so guides and properties that are unavailable in February are open in June, usually at better rates. Booking lead times are shorter too.
How far ahead should we be booking?
Christmas and New Year in Lapland need six to twelve months for the better properties, and the glass-roofed inventory goes first. February to April and the September ruska weeks are shorter-notice but still worth booking early. Summer in the Lakeland and the archipelago is the most flexible window. Nothing is ever guaranteed until it is confirmed.
Are you bonded, and who owns you?
Nordic Privé is Finnish owned and operated destination management company registered in Finland. We are the inbound department of Mandala Travel a pioneering Finnish tour operator with close to 20yrs experience of long haul travel to exotic destinations worldwide. The company is fully bonded, and in register of KKV 'matkanjärjestäjät' tour operators.
Rates, programmes and images for partners
Our private villas, signature experiences and partner rates sit behind a password, and approved trade partners get a login. We keep it closed to protect our clients' privacy, and because some of these places would rather not be listed anywhere.
We take on a limited number of new partners each season
Nordic Privé works with the travel trade only — luxury tour operators, agencies and independent travel designers. We never sell direct, and we keep the partner list short so every programme is handled by someone experienced.
Approved partners get the private catalogue, the properties that never reach a booking site, and one named Finland specialist who gets to know how you work.
- ✓ Bona fide travel-trade businesses (IATA / ABTA / registered operators / Virtuoso / Traveller Made affiliated travel advisors)
- ✓HNWI market premium travel agents
- ✓ Business clients seeking private, tailor-made Finland programmes
Tell us about your business and who you sell to and how can we help.
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Worth reading before you sell Finland
Finland in Summer: The Midnight Sun, Lakeland & the Archipelago
Finland after the snow goes. Villas on Saimaa, a short archipelago sailing window, and daylight that runs well past midnight.
Finland in Autumn: Ruska, First Frost & the Aurora's Return
The case for September: colour on the fells, the first aurora of the season, and how to plan around dates that move every year.
All Finland
Journal posts
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Send us a Finland brief — we'll do the rest
Tell us who is travelling, what they are interested in and how they like to travel.
Our Nordic Travel Specialist will then work with you building a suitable journey for your client.
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