Thanks to philanthropic efforts, a long-awaited visitor center at Ilulissat Icefjord could soon become a reality

By Kevin McGwin, Arctic Now December 29, 2017
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With its 20,000 foreign guests each year, the Ilulissat Icefjord is Greenland’s most popular tourism attraction. A planned visitor center due to open its doors there in 2020 is expected to give the local businesses the opportunity to take full advantage of the site’s U.N. world heritage status, but getting the center off the ground, it turns out, requires the work of philanthropists.

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