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I thought Iceland was looking to put the brakes on the influx of tourists they're getting? This does not help that.

• yakkomajuri 5y ago
  Brakes? Iceland's economy is heavily tourism-dependent. Measures were implemented for COVID but tourism is necessary. Sectors like tech are growing (as is the case everywhere else), but without tourism Iceland's economy is not far from that of the Faroe Islands: fish, fish, and more fish. (P.S. I live in Iceland) EDIT: There are movements towards more sustainable tourism, however.
  • iso1631 5y ago
    I thought there was some banking stuff going on - how did that work out?
    • tdeck 5y ago
      Is this a genuine question or the ultimate troll comment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_fi...
      • trutannus 5y ago
        I was going to comment on this also. The post you're replying to would be like someone saying "isn't a major energy company failing over in the states" when they mean Enron. Iceland managed to completely recover and is now one of the richest countries (per capita) in the world. That said, I've always seen people try and stir up a strange amount of FUD whenever a Nordic nation is mentioned. FUDing Americans about Scandinavia is practically a sport at this point. I'm half expecting the mythical Swedish gang war, or rape crisis, to be brought up in reply to this comment. Go do some research on reporting techniques and legal definitions first if you're about to 'well actually' me on that.
• trutannus 5y ago
  Where on earth did you read that? This is the exact opposite of what is happening. Tourism is either the second or the first largest economic sector outside fishing and fishing technologies.