Published September 9, 2022
About 243,000 foreign tourists passed through Keflavik airport last month, RÚV reports.
This is roughly what it was in August 2019 before the pandemic. Compared to August last year, the number of tourists increased by 60%.
The largest group of foreign tourists are Americans, with 73,000, or 30% of the total. The next largest group is the Germans. About 24,000 German tourists visited Iceland last month.
In total, around 1.1 million foreign passengers have arrived in Iceland since the beginning of the year. At the same time last year, the figure was 336,000.
However, these numbers have not yet reached pre-pandemic levels. In his record year 2018, he had 1.6 million tourists visit Iceland in his first eight months of the year.
