About Fjord Travel Norway

About Fjord Travel Norway –
Fjord Travel Norway is a family owned, Norwegian company, founded by Rita de Lange in 2000.

Our aim is to show and share the beauty of Norway with people around the globe, based on our local know-how, offering our personal service

Rita’s story:
I have always been closely related to the travel business, being the daughter of the first Norwegian cruise director (Harald de Lange), taking American tourists on fjord cruises on board the tiny Norwegian cruise ship “MS Meteor” in the 1960’s. This way I cruised the beautiful fjords and met foreign tourists as a child. As a student I chose psychology, but I always had my summer job in the tourist office in Bergen, thus keeping the travel business close to my heart.

Eventually I found working as a psychologist was not the best way for me, and I had a strong motivation towards entrepreneurship. I got the idea of setting up travel packages to the fjords, to make it easier for foreign tourists to really experience the fjords and spend some time there. This was the first Norwegian company selling independent travel packages directly to the customers.

So I set up the business! In 2000 the internet was in its early childhood. My brother was helpful and made our first web site, and I soon realized this was the ideal place to be for a travel company like this, although nobody believed me!
Looking back, we know the answer!

Our providers
Being locals, we pick out and cooperate with the very best local providers to make up the vacation packages. We know them, and they know us.

Company name:	Fjord Travel Norway AS
Street address:	Ostre Nesttunvei 4-6, 5221 Nesttun, Bergen – Norway
Telephone:	+47 55 13 13 10
Fax:	+47 55 13 13 11
E-mail:	[email protected]
Org. no.:	NO 982 076 811
Managing director:	Mrs Franziska Schwarzlmüller
In operation since	2000
Customer Protection	Through the Norwegian Tour Guarantee Fund (RGF) external link

Fjord Travel Norway is:
A lawfully registered company: Foretaksregisteret (tel.: +47 75007500)
A registered incoming tour operator; member of the Reisegarantifondet (Tour Guarantee Fund tel.: +47 51859940)
A member of the Bergen Tourist Board (tel.: +47 55313860)
A member of VIRKE, one of the main Business Federations in Norway