Guides

Karri Korppi

Karri Korppi is the founder and CEO of Happy Guide Helsinki responsible travel company with a long and reputed experience as an authorized guide. Outside the busiest summer peak season he focuses nowadays a lot on coordinating the guides and the company, but you still might be lucky to get the chance to be guided by himself as well.

Karri loves nature and specializes in eco-friendly tour services. He has a wide knowledge on history and design as well as urban city culture. He is also enthusiastic cyclist and always ready whenever there’s a good possibility for sporty activities. So he´s happy to show you around by using public transport options, bicycling, walking or any other way that would be the most comfortable and interesting for you!

Karri also runs his own coffee roastery and is an active person in Finnish Buddhist community. 

Languages: Finnish, English & Español

The Big Karri

Karri is not a common name in Finland but it seems we have two of them. 🙂 “The big” Karri (Iso-Karri in Finnish) honed his English during his studies in the US and as funny fact is the sixth Finn ever to enter the professional NFL training programs for American football. But nowadays you find him as laid-back boat tour guide who loves fishing and nature as well as Helsinki as his city. You mainly meet Karri guiding for Helsinki by boat tours but don´t be puzzled to see him guiding an accessible tour or for example a city walk equally as well!

Languages: English, Finnish & Spanish

Matti

Matti started in Happy Guide Helsinki through his internship for tourism studies in an University of Applied Sciences (UAS). But he found our company to be so happy place to stay that he’s still in our team. You can meet him guiding nearly everything we offer, but he’s also busy working with administrative work and replying emails as part of our reservations team. Matti is excited about design, architecture, urban culture, food, travelling and all kinds of crazy stories.

Languages: English, Finnish & Swedish

Emil

Emil is a true wonder in language skills. He guides in English, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Spanish and mixed Scandinavian ‒ and speaks even more. He has a respectable knowledge of Finnish society and churches being a theologian and a published author. But that is not all: he´s also a magician and a philanthropic guide for families representing many different generations!

Languages: English, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese and mixed Scandinavian

Felipe

Felipe is our easy-going Spanish-oriented guide bringing in that Latin vibe to the table, always enthusiastic when it comes to showing the city and its history while at the same time keeping you very entertained as the most considerate and polite host to be found. Besides admiring Finnish design he enjoys watching football (soccer), so if you love it too make sure to bring the subject up!

Languages: Spanish, English

Maria

Maria is another language-passionate member of our team. When not guiding, she’s studying more languages at University of Helsinki. Besides the weirdest stuff about Finnish language she will tell you in the most entertaining way about legends and fun facts of Helsinki and Finland. In summer she bikes through the Central Park area to work and she is always happy to share Finland’s culinary culture with you.

Languages: English, Finnish, Russian, French, German, Spanish & Swedish

Katerina

Katerina joined Happy Guide Helsinki in 2022. She has a background and passion in design and architecture world but is also very happy to show you her local perspective of Helsinki on different city tours. 

Languages: English, Russian