Icelandic Seal Center
Dr. Leah Burns, head of the tourism research department at the Seal Center will be presenting at the conference How do we value the invaluable at Holar University on thursday the 17th of april 2015.
Conference schedule to be found here (in Icelandic).
Dr. Leah Burns
The Seal Center recently got awarded a Bravo Badge from the widely used TripAdvisor web. The Badges are given out when a company reaches a certain number of Excellent reviews. We are very proud of this award and will use it as an encouragement to do even better in the future.
Click here to see Seal Center reviews on TripAdvisor.
Because of increased demand we extend our opening hours in april.
Now we are open tuesdays til saturdays from 12 to 15.
Outside these hours groups are welcome to book a visit by calling 451 2345.
Summer opening hours can be found here.
Selasetur Íslands á Hvammstanga
The Seal Center was visited today by Professor Andreas Muhar who is Deputy of the Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning at BOKU University in Vienna. The weather was perfect for his visit to both the Center and the seal watching site at Illugastadir with Head of the Tourism Department, Dr Leah Burns.
Professor Andreas Muhar
Regularly Holar University hosts lectures open for everyone given by various scientists on various topics. The lecture series is called “science and soup”. On march 19th Sandra Granquist, head of our biology research department gave a lecture on Cross diciplinary research in nature based tourism: The balance between protecting seals and promoting sealwatching.
Sandra Granquist