(CNN) — Managing a popular tourist attraction can be kind of like throwing a party -- everyone wants to come and have fun, but nobody wants to help clean up when it's over.
An official notice on the islands' national tourism website reads "closed for maintenance, open for voluntourism."
The country made the decision to "close" its major tourism sights and attractions during the weekend of April 26-27, 2019. Hotels will be open, and flights will continue.
That weekend, people all over the island archipelago will be working on conservation projects and, as the tourism board puts it, "delivering a touch of TLC to the Faroese countryside to ready it for visitors in 2019."
However, people who are just dying to visit the Faroes during that weekend can sign on to help with the housekeeping. The islands asked for 100 volunteers to come to the country to assist with the caretaking efforts -- and thousands applied.
The hundred voluntourists include travelers from Mexico, Israel, Australia, China and the United States. Højgaard confirms that because the surprising popularity of the volunteering weekend, the Faroes will host the event annually.
Faroe Islands' capital, Tórshavn, has a population of about 13,000, according to data from the United Nations.
According to the Faroes' tourism authority, visits to the country have increased by 10% over the past few years.
CNN has updated this story to note that while major tourism sights and attractions will be closed during the voluntourism weekend scheduled for April 26-27, 2019, hotels will not be closed, and airplanes will be operating flights to and from the island.
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