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Four million cruise passengers are expected to visit Norway during 2022 on more cruise ships than ever before.

Fears that the pandemic would put people off traveling by cruise ship seem to have disappeared, at least in Scandinavia. The figures from Cruise Norway show that 500 more port calls are registered this year than in 2019, the last full year with no pandemic-related travel restrictions.

A ban on cruise calls was one of the first travel restrictions to be introduced by the Norwegian government in March 2020. But with all travel restrictions removed earlier this year, the cruise season is already well underway in Norway.

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