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irisblue

(33,011 posts) Sat May 16, 2020, 12:47 PM May 2020

Bloomberg dot com, Iceland as a travel location? 🤦‍♀️

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1-Why?
2-Iceland would be foolish to let Americans in their country over the next year(IMO)
3- Who has $$ for a trip like that?

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Bloomberg dot com, Iceland as a travel location? 🤦‍♀️ (Original Post) irisblue May 2020 OP

Iceland's economy relies very heavily on tourism. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #1

$631 from JFK to Reykjavik and $100/night hotel in mid-June aikoaiko May 2020 #2

I can state, from personal experience, Iceland is spectacular Siwsan May 2020 #3

I agree, it's that flight iamateacher May 2020 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,785 posts)

1. Iceland's economy relies very heavily on tourism.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2020, 01:06 PM

May 2020

They really need to get the tourists back but without more covid cases. It's always been an expensive place to visit - costs are high because they have to import a lot of things (and they have high taxes like the rest of Scandinavia because they actually believe in looking after their citizens).