Around 24,000 foreign travellers flew out of Iceland in the month of March this year. In the same month in 2008, there were two thousand more travellers.
The Tourist Bureau of Iceland figures reveal an increase in passenger numbers leaving Iceland from all markets in March except for the United Kingdom and the so called “other markets”, which are more or less everywhere except Western Europe and North America.
The biggest single difference came from Poland: 67 percent fewer Polish nationals boarded flights out of Iceland than in March last year. The Tourist Bureau states that the reduction appears to come more from people working in Iceland than from tourists.
American travellers on flights leaving Iceland were 24 percent up on 2008 and there was a six percent increase in Scandinavian travellers. The increase was three percent from mid- and southern Europe.
Since the New Year, 62,000 foreign nationals have taken flights out of Iceland, which is around six percent less than the previous year. There was, however, a more than 50 percent reduction in the number of Icelanders flying out in March (17,600 in March 2009, but 39,000 in 2008).
