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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...
Hotel guest set off hostage drama
A 41-year-old guest at Oslo's Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania near the city's central train station took a hotel employee hostage on Monday and threatened to...
Grand Hotel aims for more grandeur
Oslo's venerable Grand Hotel is set to become much more grand. It's checking out of a newly merged hotel chain through which it had been run,...
Hotels had a good summer
Norwegian hotels in all of the country's cities reported higher occupancy rates this past summer. Tromsø did the best, beating all other cities in...
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