A real-life hobbit village will soon be nestled in the lush forests of a Swedish island, a whimsical housing scheme billed as the first of its kind - but behind the fantasy gimmick lies a genuine interest for sustainable development.
When a Chinese billionaire commissioned the Dragon Gate hotel "to unite China and Sweden", he probably never imagined that it would still be without a single paying customer ten years on. The Local finds out more as the motorway oddity nears its tenth anniversary.
As Swedish travel agencies struggle with a drop in bookings to Egypt in the wake of recent violence there, the foreign ministry is looking at extending a warning urging Swedes to avoid travel to the country.
Swedes will favour their smartphones rather than chatting to a local when they are on holiday, with web access now also topping the charts ahead of consulting a tourist office, a new survey has revealed.
Sweden is becoming a more popular travel destination than ever before, with tourist figures rising from 8.9 million in 2008 to 10.9 million in 2012, according to a new report.
Driver error when using the brakes caused the coach crash in southern Turkey in late June which claimed the lives a Swedish teenager and a Danish woman, according to a police report.
Londoner Paul Nicholls ploughed snow and erected 3G masts to make his fortune in Sweden, but his favourite furry creatures were never far from mind. He tells The Local about affection-hungry Speedy Gonzales, and the other 25 alpacas at his new bed and breakfast.
The Swedish tourism sector expanded by 5 percent to 276 billion kronor ($41 billion) in 2012 according to a new report published by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) on Friday.
Sweden has slammed the four countries that brought back "benefits tourism" to the EU agenda for scaremongering after they claimed that migrants from the EU were putting "considerable strain" on welfare, schools, and the health-care system.
With summer in full swing and tourists filling the Swedish capital, part-time Stockholmer Erik Bloom shares the secrets of how to find the ten best places to visit in Stockholm that the average visitor may never find.
Sweden still scrapes into the top ten of countries with a competitive tourism industry, but has slipped down four spots in the ranking, according to a report by the World Economic Forum released on Thursday.
The Swedish foreign ministry will extend its reach into social media, with Foreign Minister Carl Bildt saying all embassies will soon have Twitter and Facebook accounts to ease "the consular challenges" posed by travelling Swedes.
A construction crew bundled up in heavy parkas bustles around an Arctic building site on the banks of the Torne river as the 23rd Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel (Ishotellet) is erected one oversized ice cube at a time.
New York native Daniel Peltz has hatched a plan to collect the sweat of Swedish glass-blowers and sell it as a perfume to tourists visiting his adoptive home, according to a report in the local Norrköpings Tidning daily.
An entire hobbit-like village will be built in the archipelago of Stockholm, on the island of Muskö, for people to live in just like the English author J.R.R. Tolkien's character Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings.
With the summer holiday season in full swing, The Local scoured the streets of Stockholm for tips about Swedes' favourite domestic travel destinations outside the Swedish capital.
A 28-year-old Swedish man has died after eating at a local restaurant on the Indonesian tourist island of Gili Trawangan, only a year after another Swede died of methanol poisoning.
Sweden's main travel industry association has released the 2012 nominations for the "best travel experience" based on what foreign tourists want to see when they visit Sweden.
Five Swedish locations will share over 60 million kronor ($8.4 million) to be turned into well rounded tourist destinations in a government effort to boost the Swedish tourist industry.
