For those of you who work in the hospitality trade with the Icelandic market knows that there are, besides the big trade shows, two workshops/trade shows that has much more focus on Iceland at the West Nordic market. Vestnorden that takes place in September each year, and Mid-Atlantic in early February.
After FITUR in Madrid it was nice to attend an event more focus on the primary target groups that work with the Icelandic market. Not to say we didn’t have good meetings in Madrid, but here pretty much every person you speak to has some connection to incoming business.
Many good leads came from this years workshop and everyone seemed very upbeat and positive with regards to this years business.
The, arguably, third most important trade show in Europe – FITUR 2009 – is on its way. As I’m writing this we have just arrived to the stand for the second day. The first day was good and productive. Although many travel-, and hotel companies decided late to give the FITUR a miss the turn out is still very good. The main topic of discussion is the financial climate of the world and the near future for the hospitality industry. In spite of the grim “doom and gloom”-reports in the media there are a very upbeat atmosphere in general. Tourism and travel is after all one of few industries that quite often can show growth even in harder times. Iceland, as a country and travel destination seems to be of great interest to the Spaniards. Representing and promoting Iceland are Reykjavik Excursions, Terra Nova, VisitIceland.com (The Icelandic Tourist Board, Island Tours of Spain and, as the only hotel operator from Iceland – CenterHotels.
We will have representatives present at the following Trade Shows the coming months.
- 28 Jan – 1 Feb – FITUR 2009 (in Madrid, Span)
- 5-8 of Feb – Mid-Atlantic 2009 (in Reykjavik, Iceland)
- 11-15 of March – ITB 2009 (in Berlin, Germany)
- 19-22 of March – TUR 2009 (in Gothenburg, Sweden)
- 3-4 of April – Út i Heim 2009 (in Tórshavn, Faeroe Islands)
Book an appointment by sending an email to sales at centerhotels.com
This time last year we were busy incorporating the Hotel Plaza into our portfolio of hotels as our latest addition. Plaza remains very much in focus this year due to the current project of adding 77 rooms to the current 104 rooms.
Yes, that’s right CenterHotels continues to grow and add even more rooms to the trendy and vibrant 101 district in down town Reykjavik. In addition to the new rooms we are building a completely new bistro in order to be able to cater for all the new guests that will be able to stay with Hotel Plaza.
The blog will keep you updated on this exciting project, parallel to the work going on.
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