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72-hours visa-freedom and new multi-million cruise port are of little help. Murmansk gets only half the number of port calls this season compared with 2015.
Starting in Norway, the voyages to Franz Josef Land have to make port calls in Murmansk both in and out of Russian waters.
With tens of small airports and many short-haul flights, northern Norway is ideal for introduction of electric passenger aircrafts.
Northern Russia could again be connected with Norway as Nordavia draws a new route map from Murmansk.
Cruise liner announces first purpose built luxury cruise vessel to put the top of the world on its itinerary.
Visitors from the People’s Republic pour in, but the Arctic region of Murmansk won’t benefit, says controversial Member of Parliament Vitaly Milonov.
Snow is more popular than ever. About 600 charter flights are landing at Finland’s three northernmost airports in the months ahead.
Plans for direct routes from Asia to Arctic Norway will be put on halt.
Lindblad Expeditions' new cruise vessel, to be built in Norway, gets very high ice class for access deep into polar regions.
Finland launches mobile app making your drive through Lapland much safer.
Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland, has just 60,000 permanent residents but attracts half a million visitors a year, with double-digit growth for a third year running – with most tourists arriving during the winter.
Siste/ mest lest
Regional carriers Nordavia and Red Wings join forces, become Russia’s 10th biggest air company.
Rovaniemi, Kittilä and Ivalo set new passengers record. And that is before the Santa Claus and skiing season starts.
The new route will connect northern Norway with Finnair’s Asian network.
From October, international charter traffic can only in exceptional cases land at Svalbard.
The country’s government wants to make the untouched areas of the Taymyr Peninsula a new and exclusive destination.
King Crab safari in Norway's northern waters is a fantastic tourist experience, says Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
The MSC «Preziosa» this week brought more that 3,500 tourists to Longyearbyen. It is the biggest ship ever in the Norwegian Arctic port.
Cruise ships will make 360 port calls to Northern Norway and Svalbard this season bringing in some 100,000 passengers.
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.
Saariselkä ski resort in Finnish Lapland still has 50-100 cm snow.
Tens of thousands of visitors from Asia and Europe are about to fly in to Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland.
With ice on the rivers, the interest in going for fly fishing on the Kola Peninsula is limited.
Norwegian Government gives priority to extension of the runway at Kirkenes airport.
Long Read: Sailing Arctic frontiers
It‘s a paradox, but global warming opens more Arctic waters for vessels with tourists who want to see the sea ice before it vanish. Russia's Franz Josef Land sails up as the new highlight destination.
Soviet era air traffic agreement forces Norwegian Air Shuttle to fly south of Russian airspace on routes to Asia.
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.
Tromsø-based start-up airline FlyViking presents wide range of possible routes.
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.
Jet plane will fly the only east-west cross-border route in northern Scandinavia.
“I will be disappointed if we don’t have a vessel with battery propulsion within 10 years,” says CEO Daniel Skjeldam.
The potential is great, regional authorities say as they look for investors to the Khatanga airport, one of the biggest in the Russian Arctic.
Winter tourism
“We sell snow and the cold," says Adventure Developer Kåre Tannvik with Kirkenes Snowhotel.
A planned Arctic cruise route includes visits to the highly militarized and sealed-off Novaya Zemlya, Deputy Governor Aleksey Tyukavin confirms to foreign business representatives.
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.