INTERVIEW
Air Iceland Connect
C radling Mother Earth Anika Krogh, Air Iceland Connect’s sales executive in Nuuk, is also the co-owner of Arctic-Nomad, which runs a luxury camp for tourists in the Nuuk Fjord. Anika, who is married with three children, loves being outside in nature.
TEXT: Eyglo Svala Arnarsdottir PHOTO: Ole Moeller
What is your role as a sales executive? I help with positioning Air Iceland Connect in Greenland as an important player for developing tourism. There are two areas we focus on: firstly, get Greenlanders to travel abroad to the rest of the world. Normally, people travel from Nuuk to Kangerlussuaq, then to Copen-
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hagen and from there to, let’s say Paris. With Air Iceland Connect they can travel from Nuuk to Iceland and from there to Paris. It simplifies the journey. Secondly, we want to encourage foreign tourists to go to Greenland, either as a sole destination, or combine Iceland and Greenland. Ilulissat is the most popular tourist destination in Greenland and it’s a challenge because there is lim-
ited hotel capacity. One of the tasks is to inform people of possibilities in other places. Reindeer hunting is a passion for you. When did you first go hunting? I’ve hunted with my parents since I was eight. It was quality time in the tent for five, six days and hunting
