ANNUAL rEport 2008 - Tivoli

Environmental profile is strengthened
Since tivoli started working systematically with environmental
management in 1996, many environmental
improvements have been made. It has been possible to
follow these from one year to the next by means of the
Green pages of the Annual report.
The increasing level of activity has, however, resulted in increasing
electricity consumption over the years in spite of the
many cost-cutting measures introduced. In 2008 Tivoli entered
into an agreement with Vestas to become energy partner, and
Tivoli is now purchasing large volumes of green electricity every
year corresponding to the volumes consumed by the rides.
Admittedly, it is not possible to sort the electricity at the consumer’s
thus ensuring that the rides actually get the environmental
friendly electricity, but by ensuring high demand Tivoli
is contributing an incentive to producing more green electricity
for the Danish market.
The same thinking lies behind a new and even more comprehensive
agreement with DONG Energy under which the parties
will cooperate to make a special effort with a view to reducing
their own climate impact while increasing the awareness of
global climate challenges in general and of specific corporate
initiatives. This will take place based on a shared communication
platform.
With this vision, Tivoli and DONG Energy have entered into a
climate partnership agreement for the purpose of:
v identifying, realising and documenting energy savings
at Tivoli corresponding to 10% of the energy consumption
in 2007 in real terms before the end of 2012
v generating electricity volumes corresponding to Tivoli’s
entire electricity consumption by means of a new
Danish wind turbine established at Avedøre Holme as
a demo project. The turbine is expected to be put into
operation in late 2009
v increasing the awareness of the parties’ climate efforts
eg through a joint, annual branding campaign and continuous
PR work
v providing the DONG Energy Group with access to using
a number of Tivoli’s intangible rights in its own marketing
and providing the DONG Energy Group with access
to exposure through Tivoli’s marketing.
ANNUAL rEport 2008
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Sleep tight with tivoli
The tivoli Hotel and Congress Centre, Downtown Copenhagen
is the name of a new theme hotel with about 400
rooms. The hotel will open together with Copenhagen’s
new congress centre at the Arp-Hansen Hotel Group A/S
site in Kalvebod Brygge.
The construction is already well under way in cooperation
with the architect Kim Utzon. In addition to a congress hall for
2,500 people, the place will offer a number of small and large
conference rooms. The Tivoli hotel itself is expected to open in
the summer of 2010, followed by the congress centre.
This cooperation is the realisation of a long-standing dream on
the part of Tivoli A/S of offering our guests a total experience
and creating an exciting theme hotel close to the Gardens. The
hotel profile is targeted at both business guests and the family
segment providing a good platform for attracting even more
large congresses, conferences and other events to Copenhagen.
The congress compound will be next door to SEB Bank
and the National Archives with only 1 kilometre to Tivoli’s
Main Entrance. In the Tivoli seasons, a shuttle bus between the
Tivoli Hotel and the Gardens will be operated for hotel guests.
Tivoli’s share of the project, in addition to the name, is to assist
with hotel theming. This means that a licence agreement has
been entered into for use of the Tivoli name and Tivoli’s design
experts.
The good food
Concentration is at its highest on the open Air
Stage when chefs are competing for titles such as
Course of the Year, the Børsen Young Chef, tivoli
Sandwich of the Year and tivoli Cake of the Year.
This year, the tivoli Food Festival was subtitled
“Gastronomic Days” and focused on quality foods.
The prizes of the Danish newspaper Børsen were
awarded at an event in the Aquarium Foyer featuring
samples from the winners which are all mass
produced food products of high quality.