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Via Hansa & Borealis will bet participating as exhibitors and buyers at the Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow 30.01.20 – 02.02.20, held at Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík, Iceland. The renowned Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow has for years been gathering buyers and sellers from around the world and successfully strengthening business relationships between travel industry professionals in the USA, Canada and Europe.

Via Hansa & Borealis will as usual be participating at MATKA 2020 in Helsinki. Mrs. Sigrid Sigrid Kasepold, Deputy Director of Via Hansa & Borealis Tallinn, and Emiliana Palumbo, Project & Contracting Manager of Via Hansa & Borealis Copenhagen, will be attending the Matka 2020 Workshop Day on January 15th.

The Arctic Winter Adventures in the Nordic countries and North Russia offer the most fascinating and invigorating winter activities in the region. The breath-taking arctic nature, authentic snow adventures, reindeer and husky safaris, encounters with the indigenous people and the search for dancing Northern Lights are the highlights of these programs.

Via Hansa & Borealis has effective from May 1st appointed Mrs. Elina Cappadonna, Business Development Manager for South-Europe. Elina is half Italian and half Finnish, born in Italy and has spent many years of her adult life studying and working in the Nordic countries.

Somewhere between Norway, Iceland and Scotland, 18 rugged islands in North Atlantic and their 50.000 people make up the Faroe Islands. A recently discovered gem for tourists and a place of unique beauty and wilderness - unspoiled, unexplored and unbelievable. The locals and their government want to preserve their beautiful country for the future generations and they came up with a new strategy and named it ‘preservolution’.

Via Hansa & Borealis will be once again attending the USTOA Annual Conference & Marketplace taking place at the Omni Orlando Resort at ‘Champions Gate’ in Orlando, Florida, from December 3rd to December 6th. USTOA Marketplace is known for being the only travel industry event in the United States that brings together the leading North American travel companies with tourism suppliers and destinations from around the globe in an exclusive setting.

Via Hansa & Borealis are now effective from October 2019 a member of Nordic Tourism Collective (NTC) and European Tourism Operator Association (ETOA). The decision to join both organizations was driven by the new initiative of NTC to support the tourism trade in Nordic and Baltic countries with the aim to increase the recognition of the whole region and promote sustainable tourism on the core destinations of Via Hansa & Borealis.

Following eight years of construction, September 29th saw the opening of the City Ring Line of the Copenhagen Metro adding seventeen new state-of-the-art metro stations to the existing network. With the new addition Copenhagen Metro now totally has thirty-seven stations linking all neighbourhoods of the city centre together.

The full WORLD OF BOREALIS catalogue Winter 2019/Summer 2020 Guaranteed Escorted Tours has been released recently. Some of the tours are well-known to our customers already and others are brand new.

Recognized by Lonely Planet as the number one city to visit in 2019, Copenhagen is preparing to welcome even more visitors. Existing hotels are being renovated, well established hotel chains are expanding their fleet and others are making their first appearances in Denmark. Over the next four years more than 10,000 new rooms will be added to the already existing 21,000 rooms.