Foreign visitors to Iceland have never numbered higher in the month of January than this year. Read the full story

Residents of a wealthy Stockholm suburb have complained to the police about a tour agency’s plan to run ‘high-society safaris’ in their neighbourhood. Read the full story

Chinese investor Huang Nubo has applied for a concessionary exemption allowing him to rent land in north Iceland on a long-term basis in order to build a luxury resort there. He also wants to build a five-star hotel in Reykjavík. Read the full story

Although all different types of tourist visit Iceland from all over the world, the country’s tourist board has this week published survey results which reveal the most “typical” tourists are an American couple, about 40 years-old, who travel to Iceland, without children, for about ten days. Read the full story

It has been reported that Chinese interests want to finance the building of a health village in Flúðir, south Iceland to the tune of billions of krónur. Read the full story

Around 21,000 foreign tourists left Iceland through Keflavík International Airport in December; which is about 11 percent more than in December 2010. Read the full story

It is believed that some 4,000 foreign tourists are currently in Reykjavík to celebrate the New Year – which is around 500 more than were in the Icelandic capital last year. Read the full story

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All fishing for halibut around Iceland will be banned from 1st January amid ongoing stock decline. Read the full story

Reykjavík’s iconic landmark to geothermal heat, Perlan, will controversially be sold to investors wanting to build a hotel and bathing spa next to the space-age dome. Read the full story

A hotel in Denmark is refusing to remove its women-only floor despite being told by the country’s equality board that it is illegal. The Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen says its 17th Bella Donna floor will stay free of men despite pressure from the Equal Treatment Board to abandon the venture. Read the full story