VisitAarhus Convention Bureau
Intro
The VisitAarhus Convention Bureau is always at your service with a dedicated team, supporting you all the way, being a ‘switchboard’ for the city of Aarhus – the second largest city in Denmark and among the world’s top 75 destinations (ICCA). We connect you to local key stakeholders and assist you with support and advice – always with a personal approach. Our services are free of charge.
Details
To a city like Aarhus, size does not matter when attracting conferences – it is about making an impact, creating legacy and leveraging the opportunities that arise from conferences.
The close collaboration in the city between the convention bureau, municipality, venues, hotels, university and business clusters, makes it easy and flexible to plan and host a congress here. Once in Aarhus, everything is within walking distance where several venues and +2000 hotel rooms awaits you. Here, the entire city is a venue - all in close collaboration ensuring a successful event. Get a taste of Aarhus as conference city in this video.
We, The VisitAarhus Convention Bureau, are closely cooperating with Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital and business clusters where research and innovation – primarily within the fields of Healthcare, Food, Life sciences, Water, Energy, Architecture, Creativity and ICT – continuously contributing to putting Aarhus on the map as an international conference destination. All benefitting research, businesses and society both internationally and locally, creating the best platform for a conference with big impact.
What our customers say
”The level of support BILT Europe received from VisitAarhus Convention Bureau
went beyond our expectations! Not only assisted us VisitAarhus in a traditional sense
of a Convention Bureau but also excited the local building industry to participate
at our events and mobilized the municipality to welcome our international BIM community.
This has been an incredible journey for us and we felt privileged knowing to
have VisitAarhus Convention Bureau at our side before, during - and after our series
of events. Thank you!”
– Silvia Taurer - Region Manager BILT Europe
Examples of our support
- The Convention Bureau connects you to all relevant local key stakeholders, authorities and organizations and provides free, first class assistance and advice on the planning of the conference as well as recommendations on and pre-booking of venues, hotels, social events etc.
- Providing complimentary photos, film and texts of Aarhus, city maps, city app and ideas for an accompanying guest programme.
- Support for delegate boosting, site-visits, welcome receptions etc. (Dependent on individual needs and context).
- VisitAarhus has a ready network of more than 1300 engaged volunteers ready to welcome and support your conference delegates.
- Supporting impacts, legacies and leveraging the opportunities that arise from conferences; benefitting research, businesses and society both internationally and locally. VisitAarhus Convention Bureau has the opportunity to support initiatives tagging into this; whether it be events creating public awareness of the work within your field, technical visits or the sharing of knowledge and co-operation with local organizations, students or companies. See examples of previous cases here.
Aarhus in short
- Recognized as a “must visit” destination by powerhouse publications as Vogue, Lonely Planet, CNN and National Geographic.
- Denmark’s 2nd largest city. Founded in the Viking era, located by the sea. Today a young, vibrant and innovative city with 345,000 inhabitants.
- Home to the highly ranked and internationally recognized Aarhus University. Also, Aarhus University Hospital is one of the largest and most advanced hospital complexes in northern Europe housing some of the world’s most innovative health technologies.
- Home to the 5th best, non-native English speakers in the World (EF EPI 2018)
- When hosting a conference in Aarhus, you and your delegates are able to walk, cycle or use public transportation at any time of the day without having to worry about safety. Denmark is the 5th most peaceful country in the world - now the only Scandinavian country ranked in the top ten on the GPI (Global Peace Index 2018)
Aarhus offers you...
- Internationally respected knowledge hubs and innovation centres covering healthcare, food, life sciences, ICT, cleantech, energy, architecture, fashion and design
- Flexible, high-quality congress venues in the city centre within walking distance to 2000+ hotel rooms
- 10 venues accommodating 500-2000 delegates
- 3000 new or newly renovated rooms available in and around Aarhus (2000 in city centre)
- 1500+ new rooms being built before 2022
- Two airports within a 1 hour drive (540 one stop destinations to the world)
- More than 100 restaurants in the city centre within easy walking distance
- New +2000 congress venue to open year 2023. A vibrant new congress venue opens its doors in Aarhus, Denmark. A venue with sea view and meeting facilities seating 2,000 conference guests and 500 hotel rooms. Welcome to a city on the move. See more about the new congress venue here.
... and much more!
We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
The VisitAarhus Convention Bureau