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    Clean & Safe

    14.01.2022
    Just over a year ago, the Icelandic Tourist Board launched the project Clean & Safe / Hreint og öruggt. The project aims to help tourism operators welcome their customers safely and responsibly during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The project h...
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    75 thousand departures of foreign passengers in November

    08.12.2021
    The number of foreign passenger departures from the country via Keflavík Airport was around 75 thousand in November, according to figures from the Icelandic Tourist Board and Isavia. The numbers are similar to those in 2015.
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    Panorama Glass Lodge receives Vakinn; quality- and environmental certification

    18.11.2021
    This week, Panorama Glass Lodge received Vakinn certification, from the certification body iCert, according to Vakinn's quality and environmental criteria and bronze certification in the environmental part of Vakinn.
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    103 thousand departures of foreign passengers in October

    10.11.2021
    The number of foreign passenger departures from the country via Keflavík Airport was around 103 thousand in October, according to figures from the Icelandic Tourist Board and Isavia. The numbers are similar to those in 2015.

  • 108 thousand departures of foreign passengers in September

    11.10.2021
    The number of foreign passenger departures from the country via Keflavík Airport was around 108 thousand in September, according to figures from the Icelandic Tourist Board and Isavia. We have to go back several years to see similar figures in foreign departures in the month of September. American and Germans were the largest nationalities in August, or roughly 41 of the total count. Since the beginning of the year, about 445 thousand foreign passengers have departed Iceland, a 3.6% decrease compared to the same period last year when the number of foreign passengers departing was about 461 thousand. Compared to 2019, the decrease is 71%.

  • New Visit Iceland website

    07.10.2021
    The Icelandic Tourist Board and Business Iceland, with support from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Innovation, have been working on the restoration of VisitIceland.com in recent months. The website was introduced in connection with the Vestnorden travel conference that took place in Reykjanes this week. The site's content has been reorganized considerably, and information to tourists has been greatly improved, with increased material. The collaborative project on renewing the website is for three years, and the opening of the new page is just the beginning of that process. Continuous changes and improvements to the website may be expected in the coming years.
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