Sustainable tourism: They introduce a tourist fee to protect untouched nature

With a new fee, Iceland wants to protect nature from unbalanced tourism.

Author  Blanka Kufner

26. September 2023.
Iceland has experienced a sharp increase in the number of visitors in the last decade and plans to introduce a tourist tax to protect its - still - untouched nature. The number of tourists increased by more than 400 percent between 2010 and 2018, when over 2,3 million people visited the country. Those numbers quickly recovered from the pandemic, reaching 1,7 million in 2022. Iceland's prime minister, Katrín...
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Author  Blanka Kufner

26. September 2023.