Beijing finds a Chinatown in Arctic Norway
The Asian superpower looks towards the Arctic and finds a home in this year’s Barents Spektakel winter festival in Kirkenes,
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Climate activists launch campaign urging Swedes to give up air travel
Would you be prepared to give up flying for a fixed period of time to help tackle climate change? Radio
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Luxury cruises lured by Arctic Russia
Purpose-built for polar navigation, the “National Geographic Endurance” is one of two high-end cruise ships to sail deeper into Russia’s
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No easy solution to slash aircraft carbon footprint
An ongoing study by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) claims it would take a major change to reduce the
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Singapore developers want to build floating city for Arctic tourism
Developers in Singapore want to send thousands of people to a floating tourist installation in Arctic waters. “People want to
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Norway’s Tromso airport still the busiest in northern Scandinavia, stats show
Scandinavian aviation authorities report a year-on-year increase in passengers at most northern airports in 2018. Tromsø airport posts a solid
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Rise in overseas flights harms climate more than driving, report shows
International airline traffic from Finland produced a record-breaking five percent more carbon dioxide emissions in 2016 than road traffic, a
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More British tourists visited Finland in November, but Russians still first
Despite some bad press, Finland remained a magnet for British tourists in November, according to Statistics Finland data released on
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Mounting garbage a problem in northern Finland
During the busy winter season the seasonal population in Kittilä, Lapland quintuples and so does the trash left behind. Christmas
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Spike in seasonal workers causes tax office backlog in northern Finland
As tourism in Lapland hits its winter high season, tax officials in northern Finland are facing a deluge of work
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Thousands of overseas applicants vie for seasonal jobs in Arctic Finland
Travel agents and employers in Finland’s northernmost region say they have seen a marked increase in the number of seasonal employees
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Canadian tourism organizations, including in North, decide to ‘pause’ marketing in China
Chinese tourism in the Northwest Territories has seen a boom in the past few years, but with the current political
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New terminal to help airport in Arctic Finland face tourism boom
The first phase of Kittilä Airport’s new expansion project is nearly complete and its new areas will be open to
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Northern Canadian village hopes future road will boost tourism
If you build it, they will come. It’s a mantra that’s proven true this summer as the newly-opened Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway
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Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
Sitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
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