Tag: hotels

New concert hall floated for Oslo

Two wealthy hotel and real estate tycoons are offering to build a new concert hall at Filipstad on Oslo's western waterfront. In return, they want...

Tourist trouble in the mountains

Heavy snow in the mountains of southern Norway is still causing trouble for hotel- and hytte owners because it's hindering access and preventing hiking and biking on...

Legendary café closing its doors

Oslo's Grand Café, patronized by such Norwegian cultural legends as Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch, will close its doors for good this autumn after 141 years...

Hard times cancel big oil exhibition

UPDATED: ONS Foundation, which runs Norway's large oil industry exhibitions in Stavanger, has decided to cancel this year's gathering of  industry players active on the...

Oil companies slash expenses, travel

Cutbacks in the oil and gas industries are seeping into other areas of the Norwegian economy, as companies slash costs for travel, representation and...

Hotel market goes ‘from bad to worse’

The slowdown in the oil sector has hit Norway's hotel industry hard, especially in Stavanger when revenues per room have declined by 30 percent...

Oil capital’s hotels hit hard

Nearly 60 percent of the hotel rooms in Norway's oil capital of Stavanger were vacant last month. Diving oil prices, cost-cutting in the oil...

Weak krone cheers tourism industry

Norway's currency, the krone, weakened again on Tuesday in line with another fall in oil prices. That put smiles on the faces of those...

Oil sector cutbacks hit hotels

Hotel room revenues fell by 22.4 percent in Stavanger last month. Norway's oil capital has been experiencing an increase in hotel capacity just as...

Hotel hostage-taker jailed

A 41-year-old Hungarian man charged with holding a hotel worker hostage earlier this week was ordered held in custody himself for at least another...
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