This summer the Helsinki Help tourist advisors provided assistance for nearly 102,000 tourists.
The green-clad Helsinki Help guides showed considerable zeal in hunting down tourists in need of help, for their client figure grew by nearly ten per cent from the year before.
Around 80 per cent of the customers were foreign visitors to the city.
In addition to patrolling the capital’s streets, the Helsinki Help guides also received cruise passengers directly at the city’s harbours and met with bus tour visitors at their most common places of arrival.
To be hired as one of the helpers is among the most prized summer jobs in Helsinki.
The young applicants set great store by the opportunity of getting to use one’s language skills.
This summer’s 28 Helsinki Help guides were chosen from more than 400 applicants.
