– We are happy to be here anyway, and have an adventurous Christmas feeling, says Niriaina Clemenceau from France. She and her husband Thomas have been in Tromsø for a couple of days. They have seen whales, the northern lights and reindeer. They don’t remember how much money they have spent during their stay in Tromsø, but have saved for a year to be able to holiday in Tromsø during Christmas Eve. – I think that for many people it will be a shorter stay because of the price of the hotels, for example, says Thomas Clemenceau. Niriaina Clemenceau and Thomas Clemenceau are in Tromsø on holiday. Photo: Marita Andersen / news – It is expensive, but for some people it is a dream to come here and experience this Christmas, all the snow, the reindeer and everything. It is worth living the dream, says Niriaina. In December, foreign tourists have flocked to Norway, and most have booked a trip to Tromsø. If you want to have a room from 30 to 31 December, you have to shell out at least NOK 3,440 for a hotel room in a four-star hotel in the center of Tromsø, according to Booking.com. In the New Year, the prices are sometimes even higher: Hotel prices in Tromsø, New York and London Figures extracted from Boking.com for stays 3-4 January. Most expensive hotel with the criteria 4 stars and less than 1 km from the center: New York: NOK 4,959London: NOK 3,974Tromsø: NOK 8,330Oslo: NOK 2,790Trondheim: NOK 2,072Stavanger: NOK 2,037 Cheapest hotel with the criteria 4 stars and less than 1 km from the center: New York: NOK 1,560London: NOK 2,201Tromsø: NOK 3,861Oslo: NOK 1,082Trondheim: NOK 1,425Stavanger: NOK 1,528 More expensive operation It is the high demand for hotel rooms in the city that causes prices to skyrocket. – The hotel industry has always had dynamic prices, which means that prices are controlled according to demand, says Ida Jakobsen, hotel director of Clarion hotel The Edge in Tromsø. She acknowledges that the prices of hotel accommodation are high compared to many other places. The cheapest room in a four-star hotel in Tromsø is NOK 2,779 more expensive than the cheapest room in a similar hotel in Oslo. Ida Jakobsen, hotel director Clarion hotel The Edge. Photo: Julie Bendiksen / news – There is a fantastic pressure right now, Tromsø characterized by the fact that we have many guests from all over the world who are here to experience the northern lights. Then the occupancy in the hotel is filled when you have as high a pressure as you have now, explains the hotel director. Nevertheless, there are more factors than many tourists that make hotel rooms more expensive. Jacobsen points out that it has become more expensive to run a hotel now that the prices of raw materials have increased. Poul Henrik Remmer, local team leader in NHO Arctic and director at Scandic Ishavshotell, believes that the activity in Tromsø is not something that just happened overnight. Remmer refers to the work already in the 2000s. – The hotels and the industry in general have worked purposefully. It has paid off in the last ten years, he says. Poul Henrik Remmer, hotel director and local team leader in NHO Arctic. Photo: Julie Bendiksen / news Remmer says that there has been a gradual increase in the number of tourists each year. – Previously, the season started at the end of January, but now it has started in December, he says. – Goes as it pleases And even before December is over, the hotels in the north can enjoy very good visitor numbers. – For the month of December in isolation, all previous listings in Northern Norway’s largest city are expected to be completely smashed. That’s what Peter Wiederstrøm in Wiederstrøm Hotel Consulting says. He analyzes data from the Benchmarking Alliance. Peter Wiederstrøm in Wiederstrøm Hotel Consulting. Photo: Privat Hotel room prices in Tromsø this winter are far higher than they were both last year and in the last normal year; 2019, even when correcting for general price increases in society, he says. – Right now the hotel industry is doing very well, but the backdrop of the last few years is gloomy and the future prospects are uncertain, says Wiederstrøm.
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More expensive hotel rooms in Tromsø than in New York and London – news Troms and Finnmark
