STANDBY Nordic Travel and aviation news for the Nordics

More lava than any volcano in Iceland since at least 1947

Pyramiden is an abandoned settlement and mining town

TripAdvisor lists haunted hotels, castles – and ships

Volvo Group travel manager praised highly

Predicted growth in Europe revised from 10% to 3%

Airline suggests there could be 13 destinations  

Centre could open in 2020, in public-private partnership

Rodent delays US-bound Norwegian aircraft for five hours

Cruise and ferry company valued at around €347mn

Strikes had estimated negative impact of €416 million

Report says airline will slash as many as 7,500 jobs

Alpine World Cup slalom on Hammarbybacken in 2016

Thai forecasts quarterly profit for end of this year

“Chiang Mai is important hub for Thailand’s tourism industry”

Airlines could get excited by idea to radically cut weight

World Travel Market welcomes its secretive state

Celebrity Cruises offers 2016-17 season four months early

UN body says 2014 will come to “an exceptional close”

The recent fall in oil prices is not such great news

Reunion Island Tourism sends fragrance boxes to agents