The new venues are part of Danske Konference Centre, a national sales and marketing consortium of more than 100 conference venues in Denmark. All of its gold and silver tier member venues – 63 in total – will become IACC certified venues from 1st January 2019, making it the largest country collection of members outside of the US.

Mark Cooper, CEO, IACC says: “Building our Scandinavian membership has been a real focus for us and I’m excited for what the future holds for IACC in the region as we continue towards our goal of representing the top one per cent of meeting venues globally.”

IACC’s European Chapter President Lotta Boman adds: “Conferences, meetings and training events are ingrained in the culture of the Danish and as a result, there are excellent venues available. We are excited to bring the Danish perspective into our communities and into our research and trends.”

The membership will provide the 63 new venues and their teams with important access to trends, research, global learning as well as events, conferences and being a part of the organisation’s continued programme of educating meeting planners globally.

Marlene Horsbøl Sylvester–Hvid, CEO, Danske Konference Centre comments: “This new relationship is exciting because of the differing strengths of our two organisations coming together to serve the Danish members to the fullest.”

Flemming Jakobsen, Chairman, Danske Konference Centre highlighted that while Danske Konference Centre has a strong brand presence nationally, IACC’s well known profile internationally was an important factor in the board’s support of the alliance.

Photo: Hotel Vejlefjord, by Allan Trolle