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.

In 2009 four new hotels will be ready to welcome guests in Copenhagen: CAB INN Metro**, designed by the world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind and located in the Ørestad quarter of the city, is set for a soft opening on July 1, by which time 350 of its rooms will be ready (with the rest of its 710 rooms coming on stream until the full opening in September). Just a few minutes away, also in Ørestad, Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers**** opens in November offering 366 bedrooms and a 3,500 sq m congress centre. Meanwhile, Denmark's first floating hotel, Copenhagen Living, with just 12 rooms housed on board a ship moored in the inner harbour, lets down its gangway in the beginning of the summer. And, close by, only minutes away from the City Hall Square, Wakeup Copenhagen** will open in autumn with 510 functional rooms. The hotel will be a neighbour to Tivoli Hotel and Tivoli Congress Center, a brand new venue with room for conventions for up to 4,000 people, which opens next year.

Copenhagen's Hotel Boom
Since the late 1990s Copenhagen has been a European centre for economic growth. The Copenhagen hotel boom began in 1999 with the opening of First Hotel Vesterbro****. In 2001, both the 382-room Hilton Copenhagen Airport***** and the 395-room Copenhagen Marriott Hotel***** opened. These projects signalled the start of a huge increase in the number of hotels in the city, a trend which continues today. Within the next few years seven new hotels will open offering an additional 3,000 hotel rooms. Of these, more than 2,500 will be located in the Copenhagen city area Ørestad. Among them will be an 800 room hotel adjacent to the Bella Center, Scandinavia's largest congress venue.

Currently, the Danish capital offers a choice of more than 13,000 hotel rooms spanning a wide range of accommodation, from top-class, five-star hotels, to the low-price, contemporary designed rooms of Europe's largest city hostel. Furthermore, the fixed link between Sweden and Denmark - which opened in July 2000 - has meant that more than 25,000 hotel rooms are now available in the Øresund Region as a whole, within a radius of no more than 1.5 hours drive from Copenhagen.