Iceland Wants to Promote Sustainable Tourism by Encouraging Fewer Visitors to Take Longer Trips

Iceland Wants to Promote Sustainable Tourism by Encouraging Fewer Visitors to Take Longer Trips

The Government of Iceland has mentioned that the nation desire to boost sustainable travel by encouraging slow tourism.

As per the official travel website of Iceland, sustainability has main importance in the global and local welfare of ecosystems, communities, and cultures.

Therefore, the nation wants to inspire some visitors to make long journeys and follow cool mass tourism vogues.

“As tourism becomes a developing field in Iceland, it’s imperative to boost sustainable travel. Thus, sustainability is a crucial matter, but it doesn’t sense that people should stop having enjoyment while travelling,” the statement of Visit Iceland reads.

 

 The Head of Visit Iceland, Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, commented on the subject that the nation presently has worked on a campaign called the ‘Icelandic Pledge’, which goal to inspire all people to travel responsibly while in Iceland.

He also added that the pledge added a promise to leave the place that travellers visit as they discovered them. Instead of promoting sustainable tourism, Iceland also thinking to cut its carbon emission by 55 per cent by 2030 as well as the goal to hit carbon neutrality no later than 2040.

While visiting Iceland, suggest all travellers pick a sustainable mode of transportation so that they reimburse for their inevitable emissions. Furthermore, the same motivates people to evaluate their carbon footprint and to agree to be responsible tourists.

Earlier, Iceland recorded a chartbuster number of people overnight stays in the first nine months of this year. Information given by the officials of Iceland illustrates that the nation recorded a total of 7.1 million overnight stays from January until the end of September 2022.

Jóhannes Þór Skúlasyn, who is the Executive Director of the Tourism Association of Iceland said that the nation had never experienced such a maximum of night stays as in September. In September 2022, a total of 11,677 rooms were booked.

Furthermore, the director said that the nation has observed new tourism designs this year compared to 2021 when stays in Iceland were longer. Further, he focused that the number of overnight stays by tourists being estimated to decline due to the economic situation in Europe and also in the world.

Almost 1.7 million tourists are estimated to arrive in Iceland by the end of this year and it would be predicted over 2.3 million in 2023.