Northern Europe 'coolcation' attracts tourists and new residents

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'Coolcation' is one of this year's travel trends, where tourists seek cooler climates. With high summer temperatures of well above 30C, more and more tourists from central and southern Europe are travelling to Sweden.

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00:00Tourists are bucking the traditional summer norms, with this year's hottest trend instead

00:05being holidaying in cooler countries.

00:09More and more tourists from Central and Southern Europe, where summer temperatures can reach

00:13as high as 40 degrees, are heading to Sweden.

00:17We are several times in France and Spain, and it is very hot today.

00:25This time we have said we go to the north.

00:30With its 17 degree July weather, peaceful and quiet atmosphere and absence of traffic

00:35jams, the Swedish city of Umeå is proving to be a very popular tourist destination.

00:43We bought a vacation home here and then we decided to sell our big house in Germany and

00:50move here.

00:52Germany is very crowded and the climate change, it gets warmer and warmer in Germany.

01:00We have over 40 degrees in the summer and here it's a little bit colder and it's nicer

01:08in the summer.

01:12More and more people from abroad are coming to visit the area for a variety of reasons.

01:19Sweden has also noticed an increase in foreign buyers of homes throughout the nation.

01:24Climate change is another significant reason for this.

01:28Real estate agents say the two reasons the number of foreign buyers has increased significantly

01:33is the weak Swedish krona and that customers are seeking homes to have for the future when

01:39Europe gets warmer.

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