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NEW MICE SUMMIT
The Nordic MICE company CCMG has launched a new forum primarily for the Nordic MICE Market –
The Nordic MICE Summit.
The event will take place from, 8th to 10th March 2018, at Malmö’s new meeting place – The Clarion Hotel
and Congress Malmö Live situated in the heart of the attractive and modern city of Malmö, Sweden just a
few steps from the Central Station and just a glance away from Copenhagen (from the 25th floor).
The event will host around 100 high level MICE Suppliers with a strong focus on the Nordics as well as
app. 75 high potential MICE Buyers primarily from the Nordics but also from the rest of Europe, Lonni
Gulliksen from CCMG said.
Over the course of three days, a comprehensive program of speed date meetings, as well as carefully curated
activities and events, will create a unique marketplace which will aim to encourage participants to build
and maintain strong corporate networks and loyal business relationships within the Nordic MICE market.
Success
With an estimated number
of more than 1 million cruise
guests in 2017, Denmark are
looking at the most fantastic
year so far when it comes to
cruise tourism.
A period of zero growth in the number of
cruises in Danish ports has stopped, and
a positive turnaround has occurred. This
was one of the key messages at the general
meeting of the Danish cruise network
Cruise Copenhagen.
for Danish cruise tourism
Here the positive development and the
benefits from it were discussed by the
members - and the network itself seems to
be the key to at least some of the success.
Ports, destinations and other actors
within the cruise network are competitors
but nonetheless they manage to stand
together in the task of attracting the
coveted cruise liners.
To Søren Jespersen, the chairman of
Cruise Copenhagen, this is significant to
the organisation:
“The cruise industry in Denmark is
strengthening its position and recognition
in society these years and with almost
2,000 fulltime jobs it has taken a
standpoint in Danish growth. That has a
lot to do with the fact that our members
understand that working side by side in
a joint effort in order to make ourselves
competitive with other destinations is the
way to move forward,” Søren Jespersen
says.
Director of Cruise Copenhagen, Claus
Bødker, agrees and states: “This year
we celebrate the 25th jubilee of our
organisation which also is one of the
oldest of its kind in the world. By working
together about subjects from as different
areas as raising money to improve the
tourist information to gaining better
media exposure of our cruise products, we
succeed in attracting more guests and at
the same time delivering the best possible
product to our guests,” Claus Bødker says.
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