A town divided: how cruise tourism tore Greenland’s iceberg capital in two

A town divided: how cruise tourism tore Greenland’s iceberg capital in two

Ilulissat’s mayor has called for protests as local operators are frozen out of a booming visitor tradeIt is known as the “iceberg capital of the world” but to the mayor of Ilulissat in northern Greenland, it is also a town divided where friends and neighbours have stopped talking to each other in a dispute over the cruise ships that bring tourists to see its frozen wonders.Its Unesco-listed icefjord draws thousands of visitors in the summer mont…