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The number of international visitors to Iceland decreased in April for the first time since 2010. According to figures provided by the Icelandic Tourist Board, the number of international passengers departing from Keflavík International Airport in April dropped by 4% from the same period in the previous year. However, seeing as foreign nationalities residing in …

Around 173,000 foreign passengers travelled from Keflavík International Airport in March 2018, which is an increase of 3 per cent compared to the same month last year. Although roughly 5,000 more passengers travelled from Iceland’s main transport hub in March, the increase in passenger numbers is considerably lower than in previous months. However, as Turisti.is …

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Tourism has been driving the economic growth in Iceland for the past years and each year the number of visitors has grown by 20 and up to 40 percent. 2017 will be no different with almost 2.2 million visitors compared with only 460.000 in 2010. But next year the growth is expected to be much …

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There is now slow down in the Icelandic tourism and last year was the biggest so far. The number of foreign visitors travelling to Iceland was approximately 1.77m in 2016, or 40% more than in 2015. The year-on-year increase has commonly been 25.4% during the period between 2010–2016. The greatest increase, as stated, was between the …