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Widerøe to fly Helsinki-Tromsø in cooperation with Finnair

The new route will connect northern Norway with Finnair’s Asian network.
October 03, 2017

Is this the new hotspot in Russian Arctic tourism?

The country’s government wants to make the untouched areas of the Taymyr Peninsula a new and exclusive destination.
July 17, 2017

Bigger cruise ships, more tourists sail into Svalbard waters

The MSC «Preziosa» this week brought more that 3,500 tourists to Longyearbyen. It is the biggest ship ever in the Norwegian Arctic port.
June 23, 2017

Government eases rules for tourist king crab catching

King Crab safari in Norway's northern waters is a fantastic tourist experience, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
June 13, 2017

Fewer, but bigger cruise ships sail north

Cruise ships will make 360 port calls to Northern Norway and Svalbard this season bringing in some 100,000 passengers.
June 07, 2017

Announces daily flights from Murmansk to Tromsø, but unclear when

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed Norway that Orenburzhye airlines is ready to start flights. Aviation authorities at Tromsø airport, though, haven’t been contacted.
June 06, 2017

Cold spring: Post-season reopening of skiing slopes

Saariselkä ski resort in Finnish Lapland still has 50-100 cm snow.
June 06, 2017

Finnair cancels Murmansk flights due to late spring

With ice on the rivers, the interest in going for fly fishing on the Kola Peninsula is limited.
May 19, 2017

Kirkenes gets longer runway for bigger planes

Norwegian Government gives priority to extension of the runway at Kirkenes airport.
April 05, 2017

Norwegian eyes access to the Siberian Corridor as political contacts resume

Soviet era air traffic agreement forces Norwegian Air Shuttle to fly south of Russian airspace on routes to Asia.
March 27, 2017

More Chinese tourists choose Murmansk

They are now the biggest group of foreign travellers in the Russian Arctic region, almost twice as many as the ones from neighbouring Nordic states.
March 16, 2017

FlyViking plans to link Murmansk with four airports in Norway

Tromsø-based start-up airline FlyViking presents wide range of possible routes.
February 19, 2017

A record year for tourism in Lapland

2016 was a record-setting year for the tourism sector in Finnish Lapland. More visitors, especially from Asia and the UK, boosted tourism in Finland’s far north by more than 10% last year.
February 17, 2017

Khatanga eyes new future with better airport

The potential is great, regional authorities say as they look for investors to the Khatanga airport, one of the biggest in the Russian Arctic.
February 14, 2017

Two years with half of seats empty, now bigger plane takes over

Jet plane will fly the only east-west cross-border route in northern Scandinavia.
February 03, 2017

Rosatomflot steps up North Pole nuclear cruises

Russia’s largest nuclear powered icebreaker to sail five cruises per season until 2019.
January 31, 2017

Finnair adds four new direct flights from Europe to Lapland

Lack of snow on continental Europe gives boost in air-traffic to northern Finland.
January 27, 2017

Widerøe buys jets to strengthen route network

Scandinavia’s largest regional airline has signed contract for up to 15 Embraer E2 jets.
January 16, 2017

More nonstop flights from Europe to Barents Region

Boost in winter tourism is tempting airlines to launch new direct flights from Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zürich, London and Düsseldorf.
January 11, 2017

Flying in to meet Santa

Almost 1,000 planes packed with tourists eager to get a touch of white Christmas have landed in Lapland airports this December.
December 22, 2016

Santa gets more visitors than ever before

Tens of thousands of visitors from Asia and Europe are about to fly in to Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland.
November 28, 2016

High peak in low season, Iceland’s mass-tourism boiling over

1,8 million visitors may not be all good news for the tiny populated island with fragile nature and underdeveloped infrastructure.
November 05, 2016

Russian tourism on Svalbard up 500%

Coal mining is no longer the biggest revenue source for the Russian settlement of Barentsburg.
November 01, 2016

Hurtigruten doesn’t fear overcapacity in Arctic cruise business

Ten new luxury purpose-built polar class vessels are under construction by various cruise-liners.
October 20, 2016

Be prepared, mass tourism is coming like lemmings

Tourist companies follow each other and are now coming to the Arctic, says Sven-Olof Lindblad, a pioneer in expedition cruising in ice-covered waters.
October 08, 2016

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