Design for the rest stop.

Bridges with glass shelf and toilet houses marble: Norway embellished his trunk - also to be more affluent, older Wohnmobilstellplätze attract tourists. But not every design gimmick unfolded the desired effect.

 

Lillehammer - As the sheiks in Dubai also set the Norwegians for the period after the oil boom in tourism. If the "black gold" from the North Sea floor no petro dollars will be tourism jobs. Artificial islands and five-star-plus hotels are in the land of the fjords, however, not planned. Instead, the country cleans trunk 18 by the year 2012 as "National tourist routes" out. Auto tourists must look for new rest areas, viewpoints and quality-controlled leisure facilities along the routes.

"We have chosen Norway's most beautiful streets," says Helge Stikbakke, project manager at the Statens vegvesen, the state roads in the former Olympic city Lillehammer. "Routes, where the beauty of the landscape from the car window can be experienced." The objective is to provide alternatives to the main roads to offer and encourage tourists to time and nature to enjoy.

Furthermore, it is arrived, along the routes that many outdoor activities are possible and the tourist service providers meet rigorous requirements. However: "We are only responsible for the infrastructure," explains Stikbakke. "We can not prescribe the restaurants, what they offer."

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Stikbakke displays a slideshow from Sphärenklänge entertained, roads are to be seen. In narrow fjords roads, roads under blue skies and snowy mountains, roads with hairpin curves, which is as gray snakes through green hills wind. As if they, by nature, there always were. If the weather permitting, Norway is beautiful. So why all the effort?

Tourism is increasingly important

Norway has for many years in comparison to competitors such as Canada and New Zealand visitor numbers to the lost, Helge Stikbakke replied. Besides the Ölwirtschaft looked at the fishing and agriculture into an uncertain future. For rural areas as tourism industry will become increasingly important - hence the project.

Six roads are still considered "Nasjonale Turistveger recognized. In Fjord Norway, these are the Old Strynefjellstraße the trunk seven the Hardangervidda plateau and Sognefjellstraße. In addition, a route on Rondanemassiv, a part of Highway 17 to the coast and Europe 10, which connects islands of Lofoten. By 2012, the twelve remaining streets to follow.

Some 240 kilometers north of Lillehammer you can see what Helge Stikbakke with "nature of the car window," says: In hairpin bends snaking the Trollstigen about 800 meters up to the pass. The slope is more than ten percent. At the halfway lead a narrow, stone bridge at 320 meters high waterfall Stigfossen over. The mist spraying up on the roadway.

Experiences such as this, the "Golden Gray 'enthusiasm - the" Golden horror "from Germany and the Benelux countries, whose children have long been stripped and that of their academic content now available on self-organized tours to motorhome relaxation.

Since it is not enough, new street signs that are on the premium routes attention. Where previously Allerwelts architecture made wide at the roadside, there are picnic areas, fire departments and outhouse made of steel, glass, concrete, granite, wood and even marble.

Also on Trollstigen Plateau was built next to the service and facilities as well a new platform designed.