Iceland has proved a popular holiday choice for UK travellers in 2011, with figures from the country’s tourist board showing an increase in the number of Brits arriving in the island destination during the month of September.
The figures showed that 4,100 UK holidaymakers visited Iceland in September – an increase of 11.6 per cent compared with figures for the same period in 2010. Figures for the year to date are also looking good for the remote island destination, with almost 50,000 Brits having visited between January and September 2011, and overall international arrivals for the month of September hitting record levels with a 26.2 per cent increase on 2010 figures.
“We are delighted to report the greatest total number of visitor arrivals ever recorded in September – and a large percentage of those were from the UK,” commented Sigga Groa, the area manager for the UK and Ireland at Promote Iceland. “October is also gearing up to be a good month for visiting Iceland as we have the official lighting of Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower this weekend … as well as the Iceland Airwaves music festival from 12 to 16 October,” added Ms Groa.
The Imagine Peace Tower is a memorial to John Lennon created by his widow Yoko Ono, located on an island near Reykjavik. The tower is a series of powerful light beams which project into the sky from a white stone base with the phrase ‘Imagine Peace’ inscribed on it in 24 different languages.
The Iceland Waves music festival brings many of the world’s best independent and up-and-coming bands to join local bands in Reykjavik, and spreads performances across a wide variety of venues in the city.
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