11-06-2014, 04:34 AM
I just had breakfast (here in Macau at a Kasparov Team Asia meeting, alongside a major youth event) with Morten Sands (namedropping!) who is heavily involved with the Tromso organisation.
He assured me there are no problems at all - though some hotels will be a fair distance away (the furthest is one hour 10 minutes from the venue). Flights - the airlines are aware of the event and there will be either more flights or bigger planes, to cope with demand. The organisers' main issue at the moment is an unexpectedly large demand for upgrades to single rooms...
Apparently Norway has cash-sniffing dogs at the airport so neither side will be able to bring in large amounts of ready cash to use as bribes in the election!!
He assured me there are no problems at all - though some hotels will be a fair distance away (the furthest is one hour 10 minutes from the venue). Flights - the airlines are aware of the event and there will be either more flights or bigger planes, to cope with demand. The organisers' main issue at the moment is an unexpectedly large demand for upgrades to single rooms...
Apparently Norway has cash-sniffing dogs at the airport so neither side will be able to bring in large amounts of ready cash to use as bribes in the election!!