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Active tourism: riding Icelandic horses in Skaftafell. Tourism in Iceland has grown considerably in economic significance in the past 15 years. As of 2016, the tourism industry is estimated to contribute about 10 percent to the Icelandic GDP; [1] the number of foreign visitors exceeded 2,000,000 for the first time in 2017; tourism is responsible for a share of nearly 30 percent of the country ...
Tourism accounted for more than 10% of Iceland's GDP in 2017. [19] After a period of robust growth, Iceland's economy is slowing down according to an economic outlook for the years 2018–2020 published by Arion Research in April 2018. [20] Iceland has a mixed economy with high levels of free trade and government intervention.
Iceland also has the highest per capita publication of books and magazines, [258] and around 10% of the population will publish a book in their lifetimes. [259] [better source needed] Most books in Iceland are sold between late September to early November, a period known as the Christmas Book Flood (Jólabókaflóð). [257]
Immigration to Iceland rose rapidly in the late twentieth century, encouraged by Iceland's accession to the European Economic Area in 1994, its entry into the Schengen Agreement in 2001, and the country's economic boom in the early twenty-first century. The largest ethnic minority is Poles, who are about a third of the immigrant population. In ...
Reykjavík is the capital, and in fact Iceland's only city, and as such, it plays a vital role in all cultural life in the country. The city is home to Iceland's main cultural institutions, boasts a flourishing arts scene and is renowned as a creative city with a diverse range of cultural happenings and dynamic grassroots activities.
The British Museum was established in 1751 and had a library containing over 50,000 books. Even though the British Museum existed at this time and contained over 50,000 books, the national library was not open to the public or even to most of the population. Access to the museum depended on passes, for which there was sometimes a waiting period ...
Miami fashion blogger Maria Tettamanti gladly confessed that while working from home she is braless. "The only positive attribute coming out of this pandemic is the notion we can work from home braless – free of wires, overly snug, overly padded bras." [32] During April 2020, online bra sales dropped 12%. [29]