Despite the introduction of cars, the most useful motorised vehicle in Finnish Lapland is the skimobile.
The company behind the theme park, Lapland Newforest Ltd, went into liquidation, jurors heard.
The introduction of motorised vehicles changed life in the Arctic region of Finnish Lapland.
Two brothers have been found guilty of misleading thousands of customers at a Lapland-themed park.
We send letters to the Santa Claus Main Post Office in the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland.
After being opened for only six days out of a planned 26, Lapland New Forest was shut down.
Or take in the Northern Lights from the comfort of a warm bed in a luxury glass igloo in Lapland.
Brothers Victor Mears, 67, and Henry Mears, 60, deny misleading thousands of customers into visiting the Lapland New Forest attraction.
Henry Mears also admitted that the advertised "bustling Christmas market" was not something which visitors to Lapland New Forest would have found.
Go direct to Lapland with the Virtual Finland site or to Santa Claus' office in the Santa Claus village on the Arctic Circle.
The first Ericsson phone targeted specifically at the youth market, the T20 is sold with a strapped woollen lovika, or pouch, handmade in Lapland.
Lapland promised to be a place "where dreams really do come true" with "Hollywood special effects", a "magical tunnel of light" and log cabins.
One of the brothers accused of misleading customers at a Christmas Lapland-themed park has told a court he was bullied by staff at the venue.
My first trip away was to Lapland - the Finnish north, where I seemed to spend most of my time husky-sleigh riding, tobogganing and recovering.
The BBC was also inundated with e-mails and phone calls from saying Lapland New Forest was exploiting children and their families and was "a rip off".
From trying to control a pack of over-excited huskies in the wilderness to doing handbrake turns on ice in a rally car, Finnish Lapland is an adventure sports hotspot.
Russ Juskalian, 30, is a journalist based in Munich who has reported from Southeast Asia, above the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland and from the Himalayan foothills in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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The court was told that Victor Mears was the company's sole director but was being assisted by his younger brother, who was managing Lapland and was responsible for the promotion of the park.
The charity has helped hundreds of sick children and their families, sending them on individual trips and holidays, and holds regular group events such as breakfast with Santa and annual trips to Lapland.
Yet, the jury at Bristol Crown Court heard within days of the Lapland New Forest attraction opening on the Hampshire-Dorset border, hundreds of disgruntled visitors complained to trading standards officials that they had been ripped off.
The victims ranged from a 9-year-old Norwegian girl who disappeared in 1988 but whose body still hasn't been found, to the Dutch tourists in their 30s who were stabbed in their tent while camping in the northern Lapland province.
In rich countries, it may have come from exotic sources like Fiji or Lapland, packed in glass or plastic destined to become rubbish, devouring energy on its travels and thus making it one of the least green and least defensible rip-offs on the market.
From the village of Ivalo (and with the help of a guide), visitors drive their own team of dogs through pristine, snow-covered fells, covering between 30km and 50km a day, sleeping in remote wilderness huts each night and experiencing the isolation and beauty of Lapland in a section of forest just 50km from the Russian border.
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