“Fast Track” is an initiative to move newcomers to Sweden who have training and experience in understaffed professions more quickly into the labour market.
Radisson Blu Metropol opens in Helsingborg, Sweden
The new upper-upscale hotel offering 205 rooms and suites is the largest in central Helsingborg.
Peter Jangbratt appointed Scandic’s new Country Managing Director Sweden
Sweden is the Group’s largest area of operations with more than 80 hotels and over 16,000 hotel rooms.
The king of hotel openings crashes jet-ski in front of 10,000 Swedes
Thrillionaire Petter Stordalen kicks off the grand opening of Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live, Europe’s first combined hotel and concert hall, with a jet-ski mishap.
Scandic to open an international city resort in Stockholm
Expected to open in the early spring of 2017, the city resort will have about 420 hotel rooms and 2,300 m2 of restaurant and conference facilities. The design of the hotel involves a comprehensive renovation of the existing hotel property Sergel Plaza.
Scandic brings theatre back to life as part of Scandic Grand Central
After having stood empty since 2009, the classic private theatre will live once more in a new guise when the splendid building is joined to to create a one-of- a-kind hotel.
Tom Flanagan named new Rezidor Area Vice President Nordics
Flanagan takes over responsibility for Rezidor’s portfolio of more than 60 hotels with 15,000 rooms in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
