About Kalevi Keihänen
Åke Kalevi Keihänen was a Finnish travel agency entrepreneur, director of Keihäsmatkat and a groundbreaking figure in Finnish tourism. Keihänen became known for his extravagant behaviour, long hair and unique style of dress – in advertisement photography, he wore a chinchilla fur coat with only a pair of swimming trunks underneath. The coat was said to have cost him 120,000 markka. Keihänen was said to have copied his style of dress from the Danish travel agency entrepreneur Simon Spies. In 1965 Keihänen founded his own travel agency Keihäsmatkat, which began selling cheap trips to holiday resorts in southern Europe for Finns in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s Keihänen founded his own airline Spear Air which operated two DC-8-32 airplanes, named Härmän Jätkä and Härmän Mimmi. Keihänen was also interested in winter travel – together with his friend publisher Urpo Lahtinen he built the first ski slopes and ski lifts to Tahkovuori in Nilsiä in the 1960s.
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