Foreign travel-associated infections, Norway 2007

Travelling abroad is increasingly popular among the 4.5 million Norwegians. In 2007, Norwegians made a total of 5.8 million holiday trips defined as stays away from all-year residences with a duration of at least four nights. In about half of these trips (3.4 million trips), the destination was outside Norway. The favourite destination in 2007 was Spain, which was chosen for more than 650,000 holiday trips, followed by Denmark, Sweden and Greece [1].