Tourism Conference Association of Local Authorities in the Capital Region<\/a> (SSH) took place on Wednesday, 27th April Gunnar Einarsson, Skarph\u00e9\u00f0inn Berg Steinarsson<\/strong> The Director of Tourism described how policymaking had taken place in Thordis Loa Thorhallardottir<\/strong> The chairman of the City Council discussed the City of Reykjav\u00edk's projects in tourism. Rannveig Gr\u00e9tarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> The director of Elding took up the same theme; now it would be possible to strengthen Arnhei\u00f0ur J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir <\/strong>The director of the Marketing Bureau of Northland said that the experience there Finally, described Bj\u00f6rn H. Reynisson<\/strong> Project manager for the build-up to the journey towards All further information on the preparatory work for the Capital Region Destination Authority is provided by \u00de\u00f6rfin fyrir \u00e1fangasta\u00f0astofu \u00e1 h\u00f6fu\u00f0borgarsv\u00e6\u00f0inu er auglj\u00f3s Fer\u00f0am\u00e1la\u00feing Samtaka sveitarf\u00e9laga \u00e1 h\u00f6fu\u00f0borgarsv\u00e6\u00f0inu (SSH) f\u00f3r fram mi\u00f0vikudaginn 27. apr\u00edl \u00e1 Hilton Nordica. \u00c1 \u00feinginu var fjalla\u00f0 um a\u00f0dragandann a\u00f0 stofnun \u00e1fangasta\u00f0astofu fyrir h\u00f6fu\u00f0borgarsv\u00e6\u00f0i\u00f0 og t\u00f3ku a\u00f0ilar fr\u00e1 fer\u00f0a\u00fej\u00f3nustufyrirt\u00e6kjum, sveitarf\u00e9l\u00f6gum og hinu opinbera \u00fe\u00e1tt. H\u00f6fu\u00f0borgarsv\u00e6\u00f0i\u00f0 \u00fearf a\u00f0 vera samkeppnish\u00e6ft Gunnar Einarsson, forma\u00f0ur stj\u00f3rnar SSH, setti \u00feingi\u00f0 og […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nat the Hilton Nordica.
\nIn parliament, the lead-up to the establishment of a destination agency for the capital region was discussed, and took
\nParties from tourism companies, local authorities and the public sector took part. <\/p>\nThe capital region needs to be competitive. <\/h4>\n
\nChairman of the SSH board, opened the conference and on that occasion discussed the importance of
\n\u201ethat the capital region is competitive with other capital regions in a wide range of areas, so
\nin terms of education, housing, employment, transport and, last but not least, as an interesting place for everyone
\nto establish, experience and learn about<\/em>\u201d.
\nThe guest speaker was Leena Lassila from Helsinki Partners. She spoke about the main milestones on the way to
\non putting Helsinki on the world map and how that journey would be structured. She emphasised
\nthe importance of networking and collaboration and reported on development projects that had been undertaken with that aim
\nto introduce Helsinki to tourists and locals. <\/p>\n
\nrelationships with the establishment of destination organisations across the country and welcomed that such work was finally getting under way
\na place in the capital region. <\/p>\n
\nand emphasised the many opportunities that lay in cooperation between the municipalities of the capital region.
\nThis would make it possible to achieve better use of funds, load management and the shared use of knowledge and skills.
\ncapital region. <\/p>\n
\ncompetitiveness, awareness and knowledge of the destination and to foster harmony with the residents. She also pointed out
\nthat the prerequisite for success would be that the companies themselves had the opportunity and interest in such cooperation. <\/p>\n
\nwas that cooperation would increase its impact and described investment and development work in North-West Iceland. She described
\nthe 5\u00d75 ski area project, the establishment of the aviation cluster, and spoke about the North Coast Route which had begun
\nwhich started as a small project, grew, and is today one of the major projects that calls for infrastructure development and
\nthe collective knowledge of all stakeholders in the area. <\/p>\n
\nDestination Authority of the Capital Region. ,\"This project cannot be completed without
\ncooperation of all\u201d <\/em>said Bj\u00f6rn ,The destination's focus is on nature, well-being, culture and the arts and
\nsustainable development. It will be on this foundation that we will work on a destination plan that will
\nto be available in January next year. <\/em>He also said that when a destination plan is in place, it will
\nStakeholders in the capital region are preparing to establish a destination board. ,Everyone agrees that
\nthe need, but for this to become a reality, all stakeholders must be ready for the project.\u201d<\/em> said
\nhe finally. <\/p>\n
\nBj\u00f6rn H. Reynisson, Project Manager: bjorn@ssh.is<\/a> \/ 863-0001<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"