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Russian billionaire acquires first private icebreaking expedition yacht

You can rent it and set out on the journey of lifetime to places others can’t reach, the billionaire's promotion page reads.
April 22, 2019

Arkhangelsk based airline rebrands name for fifth time

The first Boeing 737-800NG painted in the airline’s new SmartAvia branding made its first commercial flight this week.
April 14, 2019

The Viking Sky incident – A wake-up call for the Arctic cruise industry?

When the Viking Sky, with 1,373 people on board, sent out a mayday Saturday afternoon after engine trouble stranded the cruise ship in stormy waters off the western coast of Norway, rescue services were quickly activated.
March 26, 2019

Lindblad Expeditions signs deal for second cruise ship with highest ice-class

Will accommodate 126 passengers and be able to sail in some of the most remote and pristine parts of the world.
March 25, 2019

Go to Murmansk, Visit Chechnya

A tourism information center supported by Chechen authorities is due to open in downtown Murmansk.
February 15, 2019

Latest buzz in Arctic tourism is a floating city

Developers in Singapore intend to ship thousands of Asians to a tourism machine in Arctic waters
January 24, 2019

Oulu traffic grows most, but Tromsø still busiest airport in northern Scandinavia

Scandinavian aviation authorities report a year-on-year increase in passengers at most northern airports in 2018.
January 17, 2019

Online camera shows the colors of polar night over Enontekiö, northern Finland

The purpose is to show the world that the polar night is not dark, but actually full of colors, says the local project coordinator.
December 18, 2018

No more direct flights between two largest cities in Northwest-Russia

People from Murmansk and northern Norway now have to fly via St. Petersburg or Moscow to get to Arkhangelsk.
December 10, 2018

Crowded in the skies to Santa

About 95 charter planes bring Europeans to Finnish Lapland on Sunday, one of the busiest days in aviation history of northern Scandinavia.
December 09, 2018

All-time high with 677 charter flights to Lapland

China, Singapore, UK and Italy top the list of tourists flying in to northern Finland during Christmas season.
November 20, 2018

New terminal to help Lapland face tourism boom

The first phase of Kittilä Airport’s new expansion project is nearly complete and its new areas will be open to the public next week, on Thursday, 22 November, according to national airport operator Finavia. The improvements are part of a 55 million euro project at airports across Lapland.
November 15, 2018

Moomin snowcastle to be erected in Rovaniemi

Finland’s most know comic book characters get a huge snowcastle ready before Christmas in Santa Claus Village on the Arctic Circle.
October 31, 2018

Turkish Airlines will bring Asian tourists to Rovaniemi via new global hub

Flights are scheduled from Istanbul three times a week starting from next winter season.
October 30, 2018

Hurtigruten orders third ice-strengthened hybrid-battery ship

Hurtigruten continues to build cruise vessels carrying twice as many passengers as most other new-buildings in the Arctic expedition cruise business.
October 25, 2018

No more single-use plastic at Hurtigruten’s Svalbard operations

Additional to the cruise ships, the ban will be imposed on all land based operations, like hotels, restaurants and other establishments in Longyearbyen.
October 16, 2018

World's northernmost battery-powered bus route starts in Luleå

Cold climate is no obstacle for green battery commuting in the largest city in Sweden’s northernmost county.
October 14, 2018

Chinese tourists replacing Japanese visitors in Finnish Lapland

Overnight stays by Japanese tourists in Lapland (Arctic Finland) have declined every month since the end of last year, according to Statistics Finland figures.
October 01, 2018

This is the mythic land of Hyperborea, says Murmansk governor

The perfect land of the north first referred to by Greek historian Herodotus finds a home in the Kola Peninsula.
September 17, 2018

First battery-powered tourist ship for the Arctic ready to sail next summer

“Brim Explorer” will sail the Lofoten archipelago during summer and whale watching from Tromsø during winter.
August 19, 2018

Nordavia cancelled all flights to Oslo

Nobody wanted to buy tickets on what was supposed to be the first direct flight from Murmansk.
July 19, 2018

Now you can circumnavigate the Arctic, at a start price of €50,000

Luxury cruise ship will next summer sail from Nome to Tromsø via the Northern Sea Route and then to Newfoundland via Greenland. In 2020, the idea is to circumnavigate the entire Arctic.
July 06, 2018

Ports without shore-power will be losers in future cruise ship market

Norway aims at being in the forefront in Europe of providing shore electricity to cut emission, but that might be a challenge at ports in the high north where power line capacity is limited.
June 22, 2018

Quark Expeditions orders cruise ship with two helipads for Arctic sailings

To be delivered in late 2020, the 200 passengers luxuriously ship will be built to Polar Class 6 standards.
June 13, 2018

«I will continue to cross the border to Kirkenes»

The number of people crossing the Norwegian-Russian border is shrinking. But some people, like Aleksandr, will continue to travel between the countries. «I have been doing my shopping in Kirkenes since 1995», he says.
June 08, 2018

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