already before the designation of kvarken archipelago as a world heritage site the organization responsible for the management of the stateowned protected areas in finland metsahallitus parks and wildlife finland initiated its cooperation with local entrepreneurs using a contract scheme developed especially for the cooperation between metsahallitus and local enterprises the conditions for carrying out sustainable tourism activities on stateowned land and waters were improved for instance entrepreneurs pay nowadays a small fee for using fireplaces 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 feedback on the quality of the organisations services and in that manner contribute to better planning of the work