Meetings & Conventions

Meeting News Bulletin, May
Get an update on Copenhagen and Copenhagen as a meetings destination.
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Copenhagen get's its first theme hotel
On 1 July Tivoli Hotel will welcome its first guests to an entirely new and enchanting hotel universe.
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Meeting News Bulletin, April
Get an update on Copenhagen and Copenhagen as a meetings destination.
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COP15 delegates more then satisfied
COP15 drew world leaders from 126 countries with more than 22,000 badges being handed out in total. Despite the size of the convention, a survey carried out among participants shows that the overall satisfaction rating was 3.7 on a scale of 1-to-5.  
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Best Cities Powers Ahead in 2010
BestCities Global Alliance, 10 years old, and still going strong! Following their alliance-wide certification renewed by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) last year, the BestCities Alliance sharpens their focus on market needs and clients' changing requirements.
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Copenhagen will be "The Capital of Sustainable Meetings"
The UN climate summit COP15, held in Copenhagen last December, has been certified as the world's first sustainable, international political summit. And the ambition now is to make Copenhagen the world leader within sustainable meetings.
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Denmark ranked world's leading cleantech country
Founder and president of Sustainable World Capital, Shawn Lesser, takes a global look at government mandates, green-collar jobs and entrepreneurial innovation. He ranks Denmark the number one cleantech country.
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Copenhagen sightseeing tour goes green.
A non-polluting and noiseless canal tour boat with an engine powered by batteries that are recharged at night has arrived at Copenhagen. Her first official trip was Saturday 12 December.
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Green News Bulletin
Green News Update from the Copenhagen Meetings Industry.
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Copenhagen to set international green meeting standard
A new consortium made up of the Danish Foreign Ministry, Nove Nordisk, VisitDenmark, Copenhagen Council, MCI Copenhagen and Wonderful Copenhagen will document that COP15 was held responsibly and sustainably and thereby pave the way for more green summits.
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Copenhagen ready to welcome the UN Climate Change Conference in December
From December 7-18 the hopes of the planet will be focussed on discussions being held in Copenhagen, as up to 12-15,000 people from around the world gather to attempt to reach a new global climate agreement at the UN Convention on Climate Change, COP 15.
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Copenhagen's new congress center to be certified with The Green Key 
Next year sees the opening of the Tivoli Congress Center and, already during the building phase, the new center has taken into account a range of environmental demands, including those required to receive a Green Key.
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Green meetings in Copenhagen  
The ultimate ‘green meeting' is a reality in Copenhagen, thanks to its eco-labelled hotels, organic foods, recycled furniture and environmentally friendly transport options. No wonder Copenhagen is known as one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. 
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Your place or mine?
The cool, black front cover asks just one question: Your place or mine? And page three has just one answer: Let's make it mine: Copenhagen.
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Danes are the happiest pople in the world
A number of suveys shows, that Danes are the happiest people in the world and the inhabitants of Copenhagen are the most satisfied in the whole of Europe.
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Copenhagen in the top 10
With a total of 104 international congresses held in 2008 Copenhagen is one of the world's most appealing congress cities - ahead of both London and Amsterdam.
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Americans to bring Congresses to Copenhagen
According to the latest report from the Union of International Associations, Copenhagen is one of the world's most popular congress cities. But it doesn't mean that Wonderful Copenhagen is resting on its laurels. 
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World Bank: Copenhagen Capacity is the Best in the World
The World Bank has recently ranked Copenhagen Capacity as the best regional investment promotion agency in the world in its "Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2009" report, in which the World Bank compares the marketing and services of 181 national and 32 regional investment promotion agencies.
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MICE News Bulletin
Short news from the Copenhagen Meeting Industry.
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Copenhagen hosts IOC Session and Congress in October
Heads of state, presidents, royal family from all around the world are just some of the people expected in Copenhagen, when the IOC's 121^st session and 13^th congress is held at Scandinavia's largest convention centre, the Bella Center in Copenhagen this October. Around 1,200 recognized delegates and 1,200 journalists are expected.
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Green MICE news Bulletin, May
Short green news from the Copenhagen Meeting Industry
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MCI opens third Scandinavian Office in Copenhagen
MCI announces its merger with NHG A/S in Copenhagen. Already present in Scandinavia with offices in Stockholm and Gothenburg, MCI is developing its presence in the region by expanding in one of the most rapidly growing cities in Europe.
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Novel facilities await conference delegates
A new and innovative conference centre concept is what awaits the corporate sector when DGI-byen opens its new venue this summer, with seating space for up to 1,000 delegates. 
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Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers becomes Denmark' first Low Energy and CO2 Neutral Hotel
December 2009, when Copenhagen hosts the UN Climate Summit - COP 15 - a new CO2 Neutral Hotel will offer sustainable accommodation to the world's presidents and ministers. The international hotel chain Crowne Plaza will open in Copenhagen Towers on the November 16 2009 with its landmark building towering 85 meters into the air in Copenhagen's Oerestad.
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Tivoli Congress Center - brand new venue downtown Copenhagen is ready to take in reservations!
Construction is now in full swing on Copenhagen's spectacular new conference center, Tivoli Congress Center, and its adjacent thematic companion, the 402-room Tivoli Hotel, right in the heart of the city. Summer 2010 is the date scheduled for the inauguration of Tivoli Hotel, while Tivoli CongressCenter will host its first major event a few months later in the autumn.
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Denmark world's second most peaceful country
Copenhagen is the capital of one of the world's most peaceful countries. Denmark comes second on Global Peace Index' 2008 rankings of 140 countries worldwide.
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Copenhagen Hotel Boom
This year will see 1,600 new hotel rooms opening in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, within the next few years a further 1,400 rooms will be added to the city's existing hotel portfolio, bringing the total number of rooms offered in the Danish capital to over 16,000.
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The recent appointments of Mr. Steen Jakobsen and Mrs. Sus Nygaard to the board of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) underlines the already strong presence of Danes at the highest levels of the meetings industry worldwide.
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Wonderful Copenhagen receives international quality stamp
Wonderful Copenhagen's congress division has fulfilled the strict criteria of the BestCities Global Alliance Quality Assurance System. It is the first Quality system in the world for CVB services setting new standards for services to congress organizers. Lloyd's Register recently awarded a Certificate of Approval to the BestCities Global Alliance.
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Bella Center is building the biggest hotel in Scandinavia
Two towers of 76,5 m each has started to raise its journey towards the sky. The hotel is expected to open in the first quarter of year 2011. The foundation stone was placed medio September 2008 and both Orestad and Copenhagen can look forward to a unique landmark, when Bella Hotel is inaugurated.
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Nine hotels in Copenhagen certified by The Green Key
As part of the Arp-Hansen Hotel Group's environmental effort all nine hotels of the Group have qualified for "the green stamp" of The Green Key - the internationally recognized environmental certification of this industry.
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Prize winning meetings product at Scandic
With Swan-marked printed material and whiteboard pens, improved sorting at source and the abolition of non-reusable packing, among other environmentally friendly policies, Scandic makes it easier to be a green conference arranger.
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Monocle ranks Copenhagen best city for design and quality of life
Style genius, editor in chief and founder of Wallpaper Magazine and the renowned magazine Monocle Tyler Brûlé has given Copenhagen his recognition: In the July/August issue of Monocle, on newsstands from 19 June, Copenhagen is ranked no. 1 among "The World's 25 Top Cities for Quality of life". In addition the magazine proclaims the capital of Denmark as "Best Design City".
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The World's Best Metro
Copenhagen's Metro was voted the world's best metro at a major conference of delegates from the global metro industry.
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Scandinavian Airlines introduces carbon offset program for international meetings in Scandinavia
If not the first, then as one of the first airlines in the world, SAS launches a Carbon offset program for International congresses & events as a part of the SAS Official Airline product.
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Brøchner Hotels to become the world's first CO2-neutral hotel chain
Brøchner Hotels in Denmark is now taking a lead in the global climate initiative by becoming the world's first CO2-neutral hotel chain. The hotel chain, which includes Hotel Kong Arthur, Hotel Fox, Ibsens Hotel and Hotel Danmark - all situated in Copenhagen - will be CO2-neutral as early as this year. Brøchner Hotels has at the same time taken the initiative to create a world-wide network of hotels that pledged to be CO2-neutral.
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