Iceland increasingly popular at Christmas
This year's Christmas tree in Húsavík, North Iceland. Photo: Hafþór Hreiðarsson
The days when Iceland was viewed as a purely summer destination are well and truly in the past, with tour operators around the country reporting bumper demand over the festive season.
Record numbers of tourists are expected at many of Iceland’s most famous tourist sites this Christmas time.
For instance, all slots to visit the Into the Glacier ice tunnels and caves at Langjökull between Christmas and the New Year are fully booked. Expected visitor numbers for this year were initially 15,000, but this has now be revised up by some 60% to 24,000.
Tour operators Iceland Excursions and Gray Line Iceland have taken on extra staff in the course 2015 to cope with the extra demand.
