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Copenhagen�s Hotel Boom: Close to 800
New Hotel Rooms in 2003

 
September 2003 - With four new hotels this year, 2003 is an important milestone in Copenhagen�s on-going hotel boom. By the end of 2004 the city expects to offer 2,000 new hotel rooms.

Since 1999 Copenhagen has increased its hotel capacity by more than 24 per cent. Currently, the Danish capital has more than 12,500 hotel rooms in total and, with the newcomers opening next, that figure is set to increase to close to 14,000.

The four newest hotels in Copenhagen are the three-star The Square Copenhagen, the five-star Hotel Skt. Petri, the two-star Zleep Airport Hotel and Clarion Hotel Copenhagen.

The Square, located on Copenhagen�s Rådhuspladsen (the Town Hall Square), opened on June 1 with 192 rooms. The Hotel Skt. Petri, which is Copenhagen�s fifth five-star hotel, welcomed its first guests in the beginning of July. It offers 270 rooms in what was once one of the city�s largest department stores,located in the medieval heart of the city opposite Copenhagen University. Zleep Airport Hotel, located close to Copenhagen Congress Centre, Bella Center, opened in August, offering 100 rooms. The fourth hotel just opened September 18 is the Choice Hotel group�s four-star Clarion Hotel Copenhagen, with 215 rooms.

Lars Bernhard Jørgensen, managing director of Wonderful Copenhagen CVB, comments: �Copenhagen is among the world's top ten most used congress cities, but in the past it has missed out on many major conferences and meetings during the peak season, from May to September, because of limited hotel capacity. These new hotels will meet the demand from the major congresses although, in light of the economic slow down, it will of course be a challenge for the city to maintain demand for hotel rooms in the coming years.�

The Copenhagen hotel boom began in 1999 with the opening of the First Hotel Vesterbro. In 2001 both the 382-room Hilton Copenhagen Airport and the 395-room Copenhagen Marriott opened their doors at the same time as a number of existing hotels commenced renovation and/or expansion. Prior to the opening of The Square, Hotel Skt. Petri and Zleep Airport Hotel this year, the most recent arrival on the city�s hotel scene was the Hilton group's latest Scandic hotel, the 281-room Scandic Sydhavnen, which opened in May 2002.

In addition to the several new hotels in Copenhagen, the fixed link between Sweden and Denmark, which opened in July 2000, has meant that a total of close to 23,000 hotel rooms are now available in the Øresund Region as a whole, encompassing Copenhagen and Malmø.

The new Copenhagen hotels in brief

The Hilton Copenhagen Airport opened on 2 February 2001. With 382 rooms, a floor of meeting rooms, a fitness centre and a pool, the Hilton is geared to both business and leisure guests. It also boasts underground parking; direct access to Copenhagen airport's Terminal 3, via a covered walkway; restaurants; and 24-hour room service.

The Copenhagen Marriott Hotel is located on the waterfront in central Copenhagen, and opened with 395 rooms plus conference facilities on 1 September 2001. It features a 550 square-metre conference hall (which can be divided in two by a partition if required) overlooking the harbour, as well as eight meeting rooms. The hotel also has its own restaurant with outdoor terrace; a lobby bar; 24-hour room service; and a fitness centre. Meanwhile, a fully equipped business centre caters to business and commercial guests.

The Hilton Group's Scandic Sydhavnen opened in May 2002. The hotel is located in Sydhavnen, an expanding business quarter located close to Copenhagen's congress centre, Bella Center, and the new city quarter, Ørestad. It is also easily reached from Copenhagen airport and the city centre. All of the Scandic Sydhavnen�s 281 rooms are decorated to the highest modern standards and offer free high-speed Internet access. The hotel also boasts modern conference facilities and two restaurants.

In June 2002 Hotel Guldsmeden, a smaller scale, more intimate hotel, opened on Vesterbrogade in central Copenhagen. In May 2003 Guldsmeden expanded and is now offering 64 rooms, each of which is individually decorated in the French colonial style.

One of the newest hotels to open in Copenhagen is ARP Hansen Hotel group�s 9th hotel, The Square Copenhagen. The Square opened on 1 June 2003, initially offering 192 rooms, but with the possibility for expansion to 280 rooms in the future. The Square Copenhagen is located right in the heart of the city, in Rådhuspladsen (the Town Hall Square), just minutes away from the central station, the main shopping area and Tivoli Gardens.

Host Hotel Properties has just completed the finishing touches to a new five star hotel, Hotel Skt. Petri, in the former Daells Department Store building in the centre of Copenhagen. This new hotel complex opened in July this year and offers 270 spacious rooms, plus substantial conference facilities; a fitness centre; 24-hour room service; and a ground floor shopping area. The Sankt Petri is Copenhagen�s fifth five-star hotel.

In August the new Danish-owned, low-price hotel group, Nordic Hotel Management, opened their first hotel close to Copenhagen Airport and the Bella Center. This two-star hotel is called Zleep Hotel Airport, and initially offers 100 rooms and a breakfast restaurant.

Choice Hotels� four-star Clarion Hotel Copenhagen opened its doors to the public September 18 2003. The new hotel, which has 215 rooms, is situated in Sydhavn, an expanding business quarter not far from the city centre, Copenhagen's congress centre, Bella Center, and the new Copenhagen city quarter, Ørestad.Clarion Hotel Copenhagen offers flexible five star conference facilities for up to 180 persons with surround sound, flat screen TVs, LCD projectors etc.

2004

Plans are underway for the CAB INN hotel chain to open its third low-price hotel in the centre of Copenhagen in the spring of 2004. The 350-room, two-star hotel will be situated just behind Tivoli Gardens.

The ARP-Hansen Hotel Group continues its expansion with another hotel project scheduled to open in the spring of 2004. Located on an artificial island in the middle of Copenhagen harbour adjacent to Fisketorvet shopping centre, the Copenhagen Island hotel will offer 200 rooms and suites - half with views to the harbour, half with views to the city, plus a breakfast restaurant. A bridge will connect the hotel to Fisketorvet, while a promenade will stretch along the waterfront past the neighbouring Marriott Hotel to the Black Diamond.

Copenhagen's new city quarter, Ørestad, which is currently being built just one kilometre from the Town Hall Square, will also feature a new hotel. County Inns and Suites, as the new hotel will be named, will open with 170 rooms in the summer 2004. This new three-star hotel will be located just a few minutes from Copenhagen Airport and Bella Center, Copenhagen's main congress and convention centre.

Floating Designer Hotel

In September 2004 a new, unique hotel, conference and restaurant ship, MF Kong Frederik IX, will open in Copenhagen Harbour. This historic ferry which dates from 1954 is being redesigned to offer approximately 12�18 suites, each individually created by Danish designers and architecture students, as well as a health centre, a shop, restaurants and conference centre. MF Kong Frederik IX will be decorated in a characteristically Danish style and offer various Danish-themed cultural activities.

New hotel at the airport

Towards the end of 2004 another new hotel is set to openadjacent to Copenhagen Airport. This as-yet unnamed three-star hotel will offer approximately 200 rooms.

Furthermore, another new Copenhagen hotel is planned to open in Scala, currently a shopping and entertainment centre, immediately opposite the main entrance to the Tivoli Gardens. This four-star hotel is scheduled to open at the end of 2004, and will have approximately 225 rooms. The ground floor will remain a retail area, consisting of shops of an international standard.

Pending

As well as these projects already underway, a further hotel is expected to open in the new city quarter Ørestad, while the already impressive facilities of the congress and convention venue, Bella Center, are also expected to be augmented by a new hotel.
Looking a few years ahead, it could one day also be possible to stay in a hotel in the famous Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli Gardens, which celebrated its 160th anniversary in 2003, is Copenhagen�s most visited tourist attraction. The rumoured Tivoli hotel is likely to boast five-star service and facilities and approximately 160 rooms.

 

 
Contact:
Wonderful Copenhagen
Ulrika Mårtensson
Projektleder
Press Officer, Meetings & Incentives
Gammel Kongevej 1
1610 København V.
Denmark
Phone: (+45) 33 25 74 00
[email protected]  
Also See: Designed by Arne Jacobsen, The Worlds First Designer Hotel Turns Forty; Radisson SAS Royal,
Copenhagen / July 2000
Scandic � Hotels with History; During 40 year History the Scandic Concept Has Been Transformed / July 2003


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