Already before the designation of Kvarken Archipelago as a World Heritage Site the organization responsible for the management of the state-owned protected areas in Finland - Metsahallitus Parks and Wildlife Finland - initiated its co-operation with local entrepreneurs. Using a contract scheme developed especially for the co-operation between Metsahallitus and local enterprises, the conditions for carrying out sustainable tourism activities on state-owned land and waters were improved. For instance, entrepreneurs pay nowadays a small fee for using fire-places and other type of infrastructure located on areas managed by Metsahallitus. On the other hand, the entrepreneurs also have the possibility to give Metsahallitus annual feed-back on the quality of the organisations' services, and in that manner contribute to better planning of the work.