Business International

Destination Avannaa - your one door non-profit business partner.

Are you a foreign entrepreneur? Investor?

Are you a local or foreign entrepreneur? Investor? Do you have business projects in North Greenland?

Destination Avannaa is there to assist you; we are your non-profit and impartial partners with any business project in North Greenland.

Destination Avannaa A/S offers ample counselling, such as assessment of your business idea to guiding you through the administrative system and the Greenlandic business environment.

We help business’ located in North Greenland – and business’ whom it’s wish is to invest in North Greenland and to find partners, we are also able to set up a network formed according to their specific needs. We will gladly give you an insight and outlook of the market in the North Greenland region and also assess how to use North Greenland as a regional base for operations in the area and beyond.

Our services are free of charge, impartial and strictly confidential. We are there for you so that you can get the most of your business initiative in the region.

Investment Prospects in North Greenland:
Greenland is a country with booming and unique opportunities that only need to be seized this are particularly true in North Greenland. Let Destination Avannaa facilitate the opportunities North Greenland has to offer you and be your impartial non-profit companion in the region.

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Foreign entrepreneurs in Greenland

Leading sectors in North Greenland:

1. Mining and oil exploration

With its large land and sea territory, Greenland has a great potential for new fields of business opportunities in connection with the exploration of natural resources including oil, zinc, coal, gold and diamonds. Concurrently with it the mining industry is sprouting in North Greenland.

Competences:
-Advise about rules and regulations
-Contact with the authorities
-Knowledge about the oil and mineral potential in Greenland
-Contact to local residents

2. Tourism

North Greenland is the most attractive destination in Greenland for tourists. This region forms a unique combination of lively but yet traditional cities surrounded by an amazing Arctic nature.

In spite of the climate change increasing it has given North Greenland a competitive advantage of North Greenland with global media coverage and an increasing interest from the global travellers. Thanks to many sights, alternating seasons and accessibility, North Greenland is now a year-round destination.

Mild winters offer many activities, such as, dog sledging while admiring Northern Lights during the long periods of darkness as well as pleasant summers that invite visitors to experience midnight sun when the sun never sets and colors the iceberg with an amazing light.

3. Fishing and Hunting

Did you know that more than 200 different species of fish- such as cod and halibut- as well as crustaceans and mussels populate North Greenland?

- The demand for high quality fish products is increasing all around the world making Greenland the worlds’ largest exporter of cold-water prawns and is offering many other business opportunities potential.

- Even though hunting still has an important position in North Greenlandic culture, it is no longer the dominant trade. Nevertheless this subsidiary activity has opened new important market opportunities locally, for trade with the catch, but also internationally with tourism related hunting trips.

Destination Avannaa has a special and confidential connection with local fishermen, hunters as well as the international market. Why we are a good associate, ready to pass on counseling and contacts for free, opening the gate for new business opportunities within fisheries and hunting.

4. Water products

Water has globally become a luxury product. 80 % of Greenland is covered with ice, melting rapidly simultaneously with Global warming; Greenland is the place to find the purest water internationally. Many local initiatives are launched in Northern Greenland to open up a new business industry with the pure water that we have in abundance.

Do you have any particular interest in products related to water or ice? Are you in need of help to find the best way to enter this new business opportunity? Destination Avannaa exists to share our knowledge on the products, as well as assisting to develope your projects with water and ice networking locally and internationally.

5. Trade and services

The growing international interest has gladly given North Greenland a competitive lead. An ongoing improvement of logistic connections with airfreight as well as growing frequency with the passenger transport to Iceland and Denmark year round has improved North Greenland as a region for trade and service.

6. Entrepreneurship

North Greenland has in thousand years been and still is a land with challenges for entrepreneurs. With ward work, creativity, knowledge and respect for the nature and the inhabitants of North Greenland is the key to your innovative dreams. Destination Avannaa is particularly aware of this potential and therefore is focused to assist with inspiration and development of new initiatives in North Greenland.