{"id":14470,"date":"2016-08-27T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14470"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:51:43","slug":"frozen-may-have-generated-a-little-too-much-tourism-for-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/frozen-may-have-generated-a-little-too-much-tourism-for-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen May Have Generated A Little Too Much Tourism For Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/082716_1449_FrozenMayHa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s tourism board helped Disney with the creation of Frozen, believing that the film would boost tourism to the country. The plan worked a little too well writes Jon Henley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the release of Disney&#8217;s Frozen, tourism to Norway increased by 20%.<\/li>\n<li>It set off a trend with an increasing number of movies being shot in the scenic Nordic country.<\/li>\n<li>One island&#8217;s roads are unable to handle the traffic from a sudden influx of visitors.<\/li>\n<li>Their waste disposal infrastructure isn&#8217;t built for these kinds of numbers either.<\/li>\n<li>And the most popular beaches are eroding away.<\/li>\n<li>Things are only going to get worse with the number of tourists expected to double in the coming years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21704856-number-beauty-spots-are-severely-restricting-tourism-nothing-see-here\">The Economist<\/a> though speaks out in the defense of such tourism. The magazine notes that it brings substantial economic benefits to local communities.<\/li>\n<li>And infrastructure failures are more signs of poor policymaking and governance, they suggest, than anything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/aug\/03\/norways-lofoten-islands-risk-being-overrun-by-tourists\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/aug\/03\/norways-lofoten-islands-risk-being-overrun-by-tourists\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/84793\/frozen-has-generated-too-much-tourism-norway-handle\">Mental Floss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway&#8217;s tourism board helped Disney with the creation of Frozen, believing that the film would boost tourism to the country. The plan worked a little too well writes Jon Henley: After the release of Disney&#8217;s Frozen, tourism to Norway increased by 20%. It set off a trend with an increasing number of movies being shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/082716_1449_FrozenMayHa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14472,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions\/14472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}