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A prize-winning Solar Egg, which doubles as a sauna visitors can arrange to experience, will soon be on show.

The Swedish travel agency network will now work under a common brand, BIG Travel, as a merger between the two is completed.

The airline will be celebrating the annual Oktoberfest beer festival with a special atmosphere on some of its flights.

It has been a long and eventful journey for Scandinavia’s premier airline. Now that Norway has sold its remaining shares in the airline, it is the end of an era – and what an era!

Even before the first flights have started, the Icelandic budget carrier has removed 40% of capacity from January.

A family of three who arrived at a hostel in Stockholm the night before their booking are evicted by police.

The rising tide of cruise tourists flocking daily into the coastal town of Honningsvåg is starting to cause havoc.

Karen Østerbye transitions from Icelandair’s PR chief for Scandinavia to a new job at the region’s second-biggest expo venue.

The travel review site is undergoing a major refresh to launch later this year, where members can do far more than they can now.

The car hire giant Hertz is fighting back after some challenging years. That includes reaching out to female business travellers.

More Norwegians than ever say they will either travel abroad or holiday in other parts of Norway this autumn.