“We want to urge vacationers to turn off your smart devices and stop to really enjoy the islands,” says Mats Selin, island tourism expert at Visit Kotka-Hamina.
Your destination, the island of Ulko-Tammio, a small island within the National Park of the Eastern Gulf of Finland where visitors are suggested – on a voluntary basis – to put away your cell phones.
In order to favor a digital disconnection, from Ulko-Tammio, which aspires to be the first tourist island without telephones in the world, they invite you to “turn off smart devices, take a break from social media and enjoy nature.
Motives in Ulko-Tammio are not lacking. Rugged islands, lush beaches and small coastal towns where nature and peace go hand in hand in this little corner of the Finnish Baltic Sea where they advocate turning the island of Ulko-Tammio into a “phone-free zone”.
It is a recommendation, obviously, as explained from the website of Visit Kotka-HaminaWell, no one is going to be confiscating their mobile phone. The advice, therefore, part of park the mobile phone during the holidays and stop sharing our holiday activities in real time on social networks, sometimes seeming more important than the moment itself.
Away from the mainland, this little Finnish island wants to become a small village of Asterix and Obelix against the abuse of mobile phone use, turned into a phone-free island. For this, its natural charm becomes the touchstone with which to deny the telephone to the compass of history, nature and its viewpointsincluding a birdwatching tower, which is one of the great added values of Ulko-Tammio.
Images | Annika Ruohonen / Visit Kotka-Hamina
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