{"id":5784,"date":"2012-08-25T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2012-08-19T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T09:18:39","slug":"visiting-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/visiting-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden is becoming a popular tourist destination and in the last few years has continued to bring in more and more money from tourism. In fact, according to VisitSweden.com<\/a> (a great website by the way for all kinds of information on planning a trip to Sweden), Sweden now ranks 21st<\/sup> in the world in tourism revenue. That\u2019s even more than countries like Mexico, Russia, and Portugal. Not bad for a country of only nine million people.<\/p>\n

Even more impressive is the continued interest in the country. In a recent study, also by VisitSweden, over nine million people are planning a trip to Sweden. That\u2019s more than the entire population of the country. Even more impressive is that about 25 million people hope to travel to Sweden in the next three years. Of course, numbers like that are hard to get exactly right. All kinds of things could happen that results in many of those 25 million people never setting foot in Sweden, but the potential is there.<\/p>\n

With an impressive marketing campaign that includes a Twitter account run by average Swedish citizens, the country is putting a lot of work into raising the profile of Sweden abroad. Even Stockholm is getting into the act with its Stockholm: Capital of Scandinavia<\/a> campaign. (Although, plenty of people in neighboring countries, Denmark for example, might not exactly agree with that statement.) That doesn\u2019t stop the campaign from going abroad to spread their message. In fact, I\u2019ve included below a great YouTube clip of one of their events in Cannes. It\u2019s in English and is a fun three minutes showing off some of the great aspects of Stockholm as a city and Sweden as a country. Check it out:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=53_qvMQfvOE<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you visited Sweden? Do you plan to visit? If so, where do you want to go and why? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweden is becoming a popular tourist destination and in the last few years has continued to bring in more and more money from tourism. In fact, according to VisitSweden.com (a great website by the way for all kinds of information on planning a trip to Sweden), Sweden now ranks 21st in the world in tourism…<\/p>\n

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