Ice from the Torne River is one of Swedish Lapland’s most successful export goods. Each year ICEHOTEL produces a half million ice glasses for the ABSOLUTE ICEBAR in cosmopolitan cities such as London, Tokyo and Copenhagen.

ICEHOTEL Technical Visits covers different fields where you as a guest can learn more about entrepreneurship, Brand Management and our environmental programme.

Equally fascinating is the full story behind ICEHOTEL in Lapland, which has become a dynamic and growing region for business as well as an international meeting place for space researchers.

ICEHOTEL
If it is possible to build a hotel of ice in a small village 200km inside the Arctic Circle, which strikes the whole world with amazement, then anything is possible. The story of ICEHOTEL is indeed a fairy tale come true.

Technical Visits at ICEHOTEL offers in-depth knowledge in the following fields;

ENTREPRENEURSHIP & BRAND MANAGEMENT: Lecture about the entrepreneurship and story behind ICEHOTEL and ICEBAR.

 
ICEHOTEL AND THE ENVIRONMENT – HOW TO BECOME CO2 NEGATIVE: Lecture about the environmental programme and objectives ICEHOTEL has sett to reach by the year 2015.

SCC / ESRANGE SPACE CENTER
From its facility Esrange Space Center in Northern Sweden, Swedish Space Corporation, launches sounding rockets and high-altitude balloons for research in the areas of microgravity, astrophysics, astronomy and atmospheric studies.

Technical Visits at Esrange offers in-depth knowledge in the following fields;

SATELLITES: A presentation of Swedish Space Corporation and a tour of Esrange Space Center. On satellite and rocket launch facilities, the guests will get a lecture on satellites and SSC’s satellite operations.

STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON: An opportunity to observe an launch of a stratospheric balloon. While the flight proceeds, join a tour of Esrange Space Center amongst satellite and rocket launch facilities. By the end of the visit, you get to study the results of the balloon launch.

 
SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS (IRF)
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Institutet för rymdfysik, IRF) is a governmental research institute. Its primary task is to carry out basic research, education and associated observatory activities in space physics, space technology and atmospheric physics.

Technical Visits at IRF offers in-depth knowledge in the following fields;

AURORA BOREALIS (NORTHERN LIGHTS): What people used to believe, what we know today and how the phenomena is researched.

ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS in the Arctic and Antarctica - nacreous clouds, noctilucent clouds and other phenomenons in the atmosphere (including research on the ozone and climate change).

METEORITES: What are they, where do the come from and how the phenomena is researched.

SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS: What you can learn from researching space physics with instruments aboard satellites.

SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS: How these instruments are developed by IRF and what the measure.