Visit Greenland’s new survey, shows positive attitudes among the Greenlandic population towards cruise tourism. After a couple of summers with COVID19 the season 2021 meant a lot of tourists, combined with routines that needed to be revised. This caused some mistakes and sometimes misunderstandings that AECO has been working hard on to minimize. The result […]
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March 3rd, 2023The Nalunaiqsijiit Cruise Training Initiative restarts
March 3rd, 2023The first twelve trainees had their training in 2019. The aim is twelve new ones this spring. Photo: The Government of Nunavut After a pause due to COVID19 the Nalunaiqsijiit: Inuit Cruise Training Initiative starts again this spring. Nalunaiqsijiit means connectors, facilitators, or informers. The training program increases Inuit employment on board expedition cruise vessels […]
AECO’s respons to Svalbardpostens article “Swarms of high-speed Zodiacs”
March 1st, 2023The use of words such as “swarms”, “hordes” and “cattle” to describe visitors to Svalbard is starting to look like a deliberate strategy to undermine the cruise industry, and to create and reinforce a negative attitude towards this group of tourists. Under the headline “Fearing swarms of high-speed Zodiacs”, Governor Lars Fause talks about emergency […]
Dos and Don’ts for tourists visiting Greenland
July 18th, 2022Based on the success of previous local tourism guidelines, three Greenlandic communities are now launching new Community Specific Guidelines to greet visitors. The launch coincides with the re-opening of the cruise season in Greenland. A coffee break in Oqaatsut – Photo: Visit Greenland In April, AECO helped facilitate three Community Specific Guideline Workshops in Disko […]
Summer cruise traffic on the agenda
June 10th, 2022After two years of pandemic, and an almost full stop in cruise traffic, tourists are again arriving by sea to Adventfjorden. The Destination Management in Longyearbyen recently gathered to discuss cruise traffic this summer. “We see a different composition of the cruise segment than we have seen before. This summer there will be more expedition […]
Dos and Don’ts for tourists in Greenlandic communities
June 10th, 2022Based on the success of previous local tourism guidelines, three Greenlandic communities are now launching new Community Specific Guidelines to greet visitors. The launch coincides with the re-opening of the cruise season in Greenland. A coffee break in Oqaatsut – Photo: Visit Greenland In April, AECO helped facilitate three Community Specific Guideline Workshops in Disko […]
New Community Engagement Specialist joins the AECO team
May 6th, 2022With ambitious projects on the horizon, the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators hires Gyða Guðmundsdóttir as Community Engagement Specialist with a special focus on Iceland. The Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators has hired Gyða Guðmundsdóttir as our new Community Engagement Specialist in AECO, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her focus will be on developing […]
AECO receives funding for two different projects
April 27th, 2022AECO is thrilled to announce that we have received in total NOK 767 500 in external funding for two different projects. To continue our Clean Seas efforts, we have received a total of NOK 600,000, where NOK 300,000 was received from the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund and NOK 300,000 was received from The Norwegian Center Against […]
