{"id":300662,"date":"2025-07-27T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=300662"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:20:48","slug":"norwegian-protests-tourism-forest-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/norska-protester-turismen-forstor-vagarna\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian protests: Tourism is destroying the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norwegian municipalities are tired of paying for tourist buses that drive \u201dillegally\u201d, reports&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/vestland\/_ulovlege_-turistbussar-oydelegg-vegane-_-ingen-vil-ta-rekninga-1.17492654\">NRK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They protest that the buses are too heavy and ruin the roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It is our path, but we have no financial means to upgrade them, says municipal politician Arve Helle to NRK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 6.4 million visitors are expected.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/tagg\/location\/norge\/\" class=\"\">Norway<\/a>&nbsp;during the tourist season, according to forecasts \u2013 and tourism increases the burden on small municipalities around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/vestland\/_ulovlege_-turistbussar-oydelegg-vegane-_-ingen-vil-ta-rekninga-1.17492654\">Norwegian National Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>&nbsp;reports on tourist buses that drive \u201dillegally\u201d to, among other places, the famous rock formation Kannesteinen in Kinn municipality in Vestland county. The buses are too heavy and ruin the narrow road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can&#039;t afford to fix the road<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It is our road, but we do not have the financial means to fix all the roads that need upgrading due to commercial traffic and tourism, says Arve Helle, municipal politician responsible for traffic and transport in Vestland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He emphasizes that the municipality cannot afford to upgrade for tourists and believes that the business community should contribute more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&quot;It&#039;s not that the business community is to blame for everything, but the situation is quite alarming. We need more money to cover the absolutely necessary maintenance,&quot; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is present in several places in Norway. Earlier this year, \u00c5lesund Municipality banned tourist buses on the road up to the Fjellstua viewpoint. Since then, the police have stopped several buses that defied the ban,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/vestland\/_ulovlege_-turistbussar-oydelegg-vegane-_-ingen-vil-ta-rekninga-1.17492654\">writes NRK.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Believes that the criticism is exaggerated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The road to the famous Kr\u00e5kenes lighthouse is also undersized for the large tourist buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Norwegian tourism industry believes that the criticism is exaggerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 There are also passenger cars, company transport and many other actors who use the roads. So throwing the tourism industry under the bus seems pretty stupid, says Tobias Strandskog-Christensen, political advisor at NHO Reiseliv, to NRK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Expressen.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norska kommuner har tr\u00f6ttnat p\u00e5 att ta r\u00e4kningen efter turistbussar som k\u00f6r \u201dolagligt\u201d, rapporterar&nbsp;NRK. De protesterar mot att bussarna \u00e4r f\u00f6r tunga och f\u00f6rst\u00f6r v\u00e4garna. \u2013 Det \u00e4r v\u00e5r v\u00e4g, men vi har inga ekonomiska m\u00f6jligheter att rusta upp dem, s\u00e4ger kommunalpolitikern Arve Helle till NRK. Runt 6,4 miljoner bes\u00f6kare v\u00e4ntas till&nbsp;Norge&nbsp;under turists\u00e4songen, enligt prognoserna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":300663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[988,829,6036,387,202,6035],"class_list":["post-300662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turism","tag-bilar","tag-bussar","tag-bussen","tag-norge","tag-turist","tag-vagar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Norska protester: Turismen f\u00f6rst\u00f6r v\u00e4garna &#8211; Travel Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Norska protester: Turismen f\u00f6rst\u00f6r v\u00e4garna \u2013 L\u00e4s senaste nyheterna fr\u00e5n resebranschen p\u00e5 Travel 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