Scandic Kuopio Hotel is located by Lake Kallavesi, between the city harbor and Vainolanniemi Park, and is approximately ten miles from Kuopio Airport. The local attractions include the Museum of Kuopio, and the Kuopio Art Museum. The hotel amenities include a 24-hour business center, three saunas, swimming pool, whirlpool, bar, and a restaurant. The guest rooms feature movies on-demand, work desks, hairdryers, alarm clocks, Internet access, dataports, and TVs. The Hotel is Built in 1987 and renovated in 2005. This six-floor hotel features 138 guestrooms with simple, fresh decor and parquet floors; amenities include satellite television with pay movies, minibars, clock radios and hair dryers. The traditional white boats leave from the adjacent harbour for Cruises of Lake Kallavesi and the Art Nouveau-style building of Kuopio museum is nearby. Kuopio Airport is 16 kilometres away with an approximate driving time of 20 minutes. Scandic Kuopio is well known as a hotel for banquets and meetings. With its flexible meeting rooms and services, the hotel offers an elegant setting for up to 250 people and banquets for up to 450 people.The hotel has six well-equipped meeting rooms of various sizes, and 138 elegant hotel rooms. Kuopio has an extensive programme of summer events and is a centre for winter sports. There is a great deal to see and do in this green and eco friendly atmosphere. We want to create a better world for our children so they can enjoy the green and eco friendly environment. Since 1993 small and large things that contribute to a more sustainable world have dominated our daily work. Scandic started developing what has become the industry's leading sustainability programme. Now we see good environmental, economic and social considerations feature in our everyday decisions. This has produced results, and we have become the trend-setters in our industry. Scandic is proof that you can be progressive in these areas and achieve even better profitability along the way. Scandic has been consciously tackling environmental issues since 1994. Our aim is to contribute to a socially and ecologically sustainable society. We have come a long way over the years. We have over 100 Swan ecolabelled hotels. In 2007 we announced our target of halving fossil carbon dioxide emissions by 2011 and ensuring that our activities have zero fossil CO2 emissions by 2025. Omtanke is a concept close to our hearts hear at Scandic – care and consideration both for people and the environment. Over the years, we have received many awards for our environmental and sustainability work. This shows that we are on the right path and spurs us to take our work on these issues even further. Here are just some of the awards and accolades we and our guests have received for our recent environmental and sustainability work. In March 2007, Scandic won the Swedish Grand Travel Awards prize for “Best Environmental Work”. The awards were based on Sweden’s largest survey of Swedish travel agents, carried out by Fürst Scandinavian Research. The respondents were asked to spontaneously say who they thought the leading players were in environmental work.

Scandic Kuopio Hotel offers breathtaking views of Lake Kallavesi from the Scandic Kuopio hotel’s indoor pool. You can work out in the fitness room or relax in one of 3 saunas. Enjoy reindeer steak and lake views in the Restaurant Mesimarja. This central Kuopio hotel has 8 meeting rooms for 2-400 and wireless internet access throughout. After exploring Kuopio attractions like the stunning Lake Kallavesi and taking in the views from Puijo Tower, try reindeer steak at the onsite Restaurant Mesimarja. The guests can swim in the indoor pool or go for walks around the lake. During the winter months, cross-country skiing tracks, which begin outside the hotel, are also available to use. The Less energetic guests can unwind in the solarium, spa pool and three saunas, one of which has an open fireplace. Guests can also unwind with a drink in the bar while enjoying the views of the lake and dine on Scandinavian cuisine in the informal restaurant. The families with children will appreciate the play-room with its toys and games while guests with business needs benefit from eight meeting rooms and a 24-hour business centre. We have given 11,000 team members training on sustainability issues. We have now amassed a great deal of knowledge and see sustainability as a challenge and an ongoing process – globally and locally. Now days no company can avoid taking responsibility for the environment and focusing on environmental issues. Scandic lead the way and work continuously to promote both a reduction in our environmental impact, and a better environment. Scandic shall actively contribute to a sustainable society." Scandic's environmental policy since 1994. The Natural Step is an international organisation that advises companies on strategic issues concerning sustainability. Scandic works with The Natural Step and our environmental work is based on its four sustainability conditions. This hotel has been renovated with sustainable, natural and recyclable materials where possible to make the environment clean and green.We want to create a better world for our children. Since 1993 small and large things that contribute to a more sustainable world have dominated our daily work. We at Scandic have long been involved in water improvement initiatives. In 2005, we were one of the founders of the Stockholm Water Prize, an international accolade awarded by the Stockholm Water Foundation every year. The prize goes to a person, organisation or institution for outstanding achievement in water-related activities.We used to transport nearly four million bottles of water to our hotels. We used to sell around 1.2 million litres of water a year at our hotels. That is equivalent to 3.6 million 33 cl bottles. With our own water, we estimate that we will cut carbon emissions by 160 tonnes per year, based on our earlier volume of sales. We like statistics and record all our consumption of energy and water and our production of unsorted waste and carbon emissions.