Dear Readers,

Happy Holidays and Welcome to Visit Estonia's December newsletter for the travel trade!

Spirits are high with the upcoming festivities and open Christmas markets. To show this off, we've got loads of new winter visuals to share. And for those who are curious to know even more, the Visit Estonia advent calendar is full of interesting facts about Estonia and its wintertime traditions.

Visit Estonia has had quite a year on the road travelling around to meet up with our partners and make connections. Now with 2022 almost here, we're looking toward a hopeful and exciting future!

For fresh industry news in between newsletters, you can also check out the trade news on our website. Happy browsing!

Sincerely yours,

The Visit Estonia Team

Fresh Winter Visuals

New visuals that showcase Estonia in the wintertime have arrived. These include fresh photos of activities like skiing, kicksledging, fatbiking, saunas, and winter picnics. We've also got two new videos on what to do in the wintertime and winter activities.

The Best Restaurants of Saaremaa Island

In our last newsletter, we mentioned the Nordic White Guide announcement featuring Estonia's best restaurants. Now let's talk a bit more about the flavours you can find on the island of Saaremaa. Keeping with the island's culture and traditions, visitors can enjoy plenty of fish and seafood as well as some modern fusion.

To try some of these tasty dishes, getting to Saaremaa is easier than ever. As always travellers can take the half-hour ferry from the mainland via Muhu, but can also fly to Saaremaa's largest city directly from Tallinn in just 40 minutes with NyxAir.

What's Cooking in Estonia - for association planners

The Webinar 'What’s cooking in Estonia?' may hint that the content is about the flavours of Estonia. However, this is about the flavours of event planning potential! The webinar was dedicated to the association planners and was set up to show how delicious it is to hold your meeting or plan an event in Estonia. PS, even our Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Andres Sutt, put on an apron - he's pictured in the centre.

The recording is available to watch with all the presentation materials.

The Visit Estonia Advent Calendar

Visit Estonia is inviting everyone to uncover 24 facts about Estonia this winter with our advent calendar. Checking out the advent calendar comes with the chance to win a fairytale getaway for two!

To enter, participants can just leave their contact details every day they visit the Advent Calendar. Every time they enter their information, they increase their odds of winning.

The Visit Estonia Advent Calendar is open from 1-24 December 2021 and is available in nine languages - Estonian, English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish, Latvian, German, Lithuanian, Polish. Two winners will be announced on December 29th.

Tallinn Ghost Stories

Every old city has its fair share of folklore and ghost stories and Tallinn is no exception. Visitors can learn about 8 of the most well-known spooky tales of Tallinn. These focus on both local ghosts and haunted spaces and go over what places to avoid if you don't want to bother any poltergeists. A guaranteed delight for a certain kind of thrill-seeker.

Join us on Matka Fair!

Estonia will be present at the Matka Fair in Helsinki, the biggest travel trade fair for professionals in the Nordic region. You are invited to meet the Visit Estonia team at B2B workshop at Matka 2022 Workshop Day and come by the Estonia stand. Visit Estonia as well as 22 different Estonian tourism companies like hotels, attractions and microdestinations are happy to present Estonian tourism possibilities. Those that will be present at the fair are listed in the website below.  

19 January 2022 at Messukeskus Helsinki and 26 January 2022, digitally.

Calendars to match meetings are now open.

Visit Estonia on the Road

It's been quite a year! Visit Estonia has been on the road for most of October, November and December. During that time, we've been lucky to meet our potential partners, buyers, and collaborators in person this autumn. 

We've had the chance to make connections in so many places with workshops in Munich and Helsinki, Estonia breakfast in London, the Business Travellers MICE fair in Amsterdam, 5 Destinations Workshop in Brussels and Amsterdam, IBTM fair in Barcelona, BT Expo in Belgium, Aviareps Roadshow in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Linz, Salzburg and Graz, M&I Forum in Abu Dhabi and with the USTOA yearly summit in San Diego to round out the tour. We'd like to say thank you to all of our partners and collaborators who made this such a fantastic journey.

Estonia in the Media

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