Tag: tourism
Airport’s name change draws flak
Tourism boosters keen on attracting more visitors to northern Norway pulled off a stunt over the weekend that changed the name of the airport...
Foreign bus owners face new limits
Norwegian bus owners seem to be getting the protection they've wanted, reports newspaper Aftenposten. From this summer, their foreign competitors will only be allowed...
Trysil toys with a tourist tax
The eastern Norwegian township of Trysil, known for its popular ski resort and vast holiday cabin industry, wants tourists to foot more of the...
Hurtigruten breaks through the ice
Norway's passenger shipping line Hurtigruten hasn't only sailed through a sea of financial trouble in recent years. Now it's setting records in the winter...
Smoother sailing for Hurtigruten
Norway's famed coastal shipping line Hurtigruten won't be facing competition for the rights to ply the route from Bergen to Kirkenes after all. Hurtigruten...
Svalbard sells its winter nights
For years, Norway has marketed itself as the "Land of the Midnight Sun." Now the velvet silence of the polar night in winter will...
Tour bus turmoil on Trollstigen
Norway's famed Trollstigen, a mountain road full of hairpin turns in Romsdal, is a target of turmoil this summer over rules that limit the...
Hotels slump, cruising soars
While Norwegian hotels are having a disappointing summer season this year, the number of cruise passengers passing through Norway has skyrocketed. It's debatable, though,...
Hurtigruten may drop some ports
Hurtigruten, Norway's venerable shipping line that's been carrying passengers and freight along the country's northern coast for decades, may need to drop some of...
Sweden beats Spain as holiday spot
Travel agencies and charter tour firms have long claimed that Norwegians favour countries in Southern Europe as their holiday destinations, but some official, non-commercial...
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