Greenland wants new international airport to trigger tourism boom
by editors@theworld.org (Carolyn Beeler) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6ZMWY)
This is the first summer tourism season that international flights have been able to fly into and out of Greenland's capital of Nuuk, using the new international airport that opened in November. It's part of a larger effort to increase tourism, with the government aiming to double tourist visits and boost tourism revenue and employment by the end of the next decade. But with more tourists, there comes more headaches. The World's Carolyn Beeler is just back from Nuuk and brings us her report.