Tag: tourism

Airport trains need to expand

Heavy and constantly growing traffic in and out of Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen (OSL) is forcing expansion not only of the airport itself...

Calls persist for Dubai boycott

Politicians at both ends of Norway's political spectrum continue to urge Norwegians to drop plans for holidays in Dubai, even though Dubai officials gave...

Kids forced offline at popular summer camp

The roughly 1,300 children from Oslo who've been accepted into a city-run  camp on an island south of the city this summer are told...

Fire forced evacuations

At least 80 Norwegians were among those evacuated when fire broke out inside a hotel in the popular and low-cost resort area of Sunny...

Dubai rape victim finally set free

UPDATED: Government authorities in Dubai, faced with a tourism boycott for jailing and convicting a young Norwegian woman who'd reported a rape, chose to...

Rape in Dubai sets off outcry in Norway

News this week that a young Norwegian woman had been jailed in Dubai after reporting a rape there last spring has led to strong...

Woman jailed for reporting rape

A Norwegian woman who reported to police in Dubai that she'd been raped while on a business trip in the fast-growing Gulf city ended...

Tourists overrepresented in accident statistics

As thousands of foreign tourists stream into Norway for the summer season come warnings that they're overrepresented in accident statistics. Germans out fishing are...

Mirrors to reflect sun on Rjukan

The Norwegian industrial town of Rjukan is known for its darkness in winter, nestled as it is at the bottom of a narrow valley...

Norwegian sets new course to US

Norwegian Air, which recently had a troubled launch of its new long-distance routes to Bangkok and New York, is changing the course its boss...
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