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The three proud prizewinners of the first Vestnorden Travel Award: Ulla Lynge (middle) on behalf of
Liisi Egede Hegelund and Inuk Hostels, Siggi Skarpheðinsson (left) from Into the Glacier and Captain
Birgir Enni (right) and his ship Norðlysið.
Travel award
First winners of Vestnorden
Travel Award are found
On the 30th Vestnorden Travel Mart
in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, the magazine
Travel Trade Outbound Scandinavia
launched the first Vestnorden Travel
Awards.
The prizes were given to three tourist
companies and the persons behind them
in respectively Greenland, Iceland and the
Faroe Islands.
The winner in Greenland was Inuk Hostels,
managed by Liisi Egede Hegelund,
who unfortunately wasn’t a ble to participate
in the travel mart. She achieved the
prize for having built a tourist attraction
at a scenic spot in the middle of the capital,
Nuuk.
It’s a modern interpretation of the traditional
Greenlandic house built as a hos-
There was great interest in the new Icelandic attraction of Into the Glacier, which is a man-made ice
cave into Langjökull. Sigurður Skarphéðinsson, who actually won the Vestnorden Travel Award, had a
busy time explaining the project to numerous participants during the workshop.
tel and a conference center. The Inuk Hostels’
café is also used by the locals in Nuuk.
Ulla Lynge, who is the leader of Sermersoq
Business Council received the prize on behalf
of Liisi Egede Hegelund.
Siggi Skarpheðinsson from Into the
Glacier took this year’s Icelandic prize for
his tireless work of excavating a tunnel in
the glacier of Langjökull. Visualizing the
history in the layers of ice, it’s possible to
tell the story of Icelandic volcano eruptions.
The visitors will also be offered a
dram in the ice cold environment.
The last prizewinner was the Faroese
slup, Norðlysið, a wooden sail ship, which
is under the command of Captain Birgir
Enni’s. He presents the Faroe Islands seen
from the sea, sailing around the green archipelago
in the North Atlantic and serving
a divine home cooked fish soup, made
by fresh Faroese seafood.
Birger Enni unveiled, that the prize
was the first recognition for his 30 years of
work in the Faroese tourist industry.
Each of the three prizewinners got a
pewter Viking ship and a diploma. The
initiator of the Vestnorden Travel Award,
Carsten Elsted, said after the ceremony,
that Travel Trade Outbound Scandinavia
are ready to find three new prize winners
for next year’s Vestnorden Travel Mart in
Reykjavik, Iceland.
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