Tourism

Indigenous women in Northern Canada creating sustainable livelihoods through tourism

Indigenous women in Northern Canada creating sustainable livelihoods through tourism

In summer 2022, the Northern WE in Tourism study invited Indigenous women entrepreneurs from northern Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Québec, Nunavut, the Yukon and Northwest Territories...
Native artist Crystal Worl designs Alaska Airlines aircraft taking Indigenous language and art to the skies

Native artist Crystal Worl designs Alaska Airlines aircraft taking Indigenous language...

By Ali Garbino, Alaska Airlines Growing up near the shores of Juneau, Crystal Kaakeeyáa Rose Demientieff Worl was used to seeing Alaska Airlines fly over...
Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic

Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic

  By Umeå University On 26 May, Bildmuseet in Sweden opens an exhibition with works by thirty contemporary artists from the Arctic regions of the world,...
Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms the Arctic

Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms...

TORONTO — Canada's Western Hudson Bay polar bear population has fallen 27 percent in just five years, according to a government report released last...
Most Arctic expedition cruises lines are now avoiding Russia

Most Arctic expedition cruises lines are now avoiding Russia

A few years ago, foreign cruise vessels lined up to sign agreements with Russia for permits to sail to Franz Josef Land, the glacier-covered...
Air Greenland takes delivery of a new long-haul airliner

Air Greenland takes delivery of a new long-haul airliner

Air Greenland took delivery of an Airbus A330-800 on Tuesday, the European aviation manufacturer said in a release. The plane, which will replace an earlier...
Live show lets Reykjavik visitors see lava up close

Live show lets Reykjavik visitors see lava up close

Holidaymakers in Iceland can now sweat it out in front of real, live molten rock in Reykjavík, as part of what organizers say is...
Rovaniemi gets seven new flight connections to European cities

Rovaniemi gets seven new flight connections to European cities

Post-pandemic travel is on rise for winter destinations in northern Finland with a wide range of new direct flights from all over Europe to...
Gjoa Haven’s Nattilik Heritage Centre moving ahead with expansion

Gjoa Haven’s Nattilik Heritage Centre moving ahead with expansion

The Nattilik Heritage Centre in Gjoa Haven has awarded Yellowknife-based Northern Industrial Construction and the Taylor Architecture Group a contract to design and build...
Visit Svalbard cuts ties with Russian tourism company

Visit Svalbard cuts ties with Russian tourism company

Visit Svalbard has moved to exclude Russian company Trust Arktikugol’s tourism branch in a direct protest against Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. “We want...
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