This overnight trip on board the Santa Claus Express in Finnish Lapland ends with a magical encounter. Monisha Rajesh is a London-based travel journalist and author whose work has appeared in ...

Northern Lights, reindeer, and the home of Santa Claus — there’s something magical about Lapland that makes you want to “Let It Go.” The real-life North Pole — the sparsely populated northern region ...

A tourist season that stretches from October to March has been anything but jolly for some residents of the “Official Hometown of Santa Claus.” A tourist season that stretches from October to March ...

Christmas is coming, but in Santa's home village in northern Finland, the COVID pandemic means that the flocks of tourists who usually start to make merry in Rovaniemi at this time of year are not.

Shuffling across icy ground on a cold December afternoon, lots of tourist groups poured into Santa Claus Village, a ...