Area Travel Agency Ltd is a major travel agency in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. Area is a part of Finnair

Finnair

Finnair Plc is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland, with its headquarters on the grounds of Helsinki Airport in Vantaa, Finland, and its main hub at Helsinki Airport. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both the domestic and international air travel markets in Finland. The largest...

 Group and owned by Finnair, the national carrier of Finland. The company was founded in 1935. Area is a full-service travel agency and an American Express Representative in Finland. Area provides a comprehensive range of travel services. In addition to Area's own City Breaks and Longhaul Travel Programme Area offers individual tailored tours, for example Area Golf product.

Scope of office network

Area has business travel centres in Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, Hämeenlinna

Hämeenlinna

Hämeenlinna is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Häme in the south of Finland and is the birthplace of composer Jean Sibelius. Today, it belongs to the region of Tavastia Proper, and until 2010 it was the residence city for the Governor of the...

, Oulu

Oulu

Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....

, Tampere

Tampere

Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...

 and Turku

Turku

Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...

, leisure travel agencies in Helsinki's Lasipalatsi

Lasipalatsi

Lasipalatsi is a functionalist office building designed in the 1930s, located on Mannerheimintie in the Kamppi district of Helsinki, Finland. Lasipalatsi is one of Helsinki's most notable functionalist buildings....

 ("Glass Palace") and Tampere, Leisure Call Centre in Helsinki and the website area.fi.

Total company sales

The company's total sales during fiscal year 2006 were 208 million €. Business travel represents 80% of company's total sales, leisure travel 20%.

Affiliations

Area is a member of IATA, AFTA (The Association of Finnish Travel Agents) and IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators).

Special travel

Area's special travel services include Groups and Events, Incoming, CIS and Baltic countries and Government Section.

Referring sites

• Official homepage
• Finnair Oyj