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December 2020 saw the draw for the European qualifiers for the world championship in football in Qatar in 2022. Fifty-six national teams were divided into ten groups of five-six teams each. The qualifying matches will all be played in 2021 and the first matches will kick off on March 24th.

Carrying on the history of the Post & Telegraph Head Office dating back to 1912, Villa Copenhagen is the newest 5-star hotel in Copenhagen. This very impressive hotel features 390 elegant guest rooms and suites, a cosmopolitan brasserie, an all-day dining restaurant, bar and playroom, a glass-covered courtyard, a hidden roof garden...

Denmark’s capital city Copenhagen will see a new addition to its diverse hotel collection. The new luxury Hotel Villa Copenhagen will open in April this year. The hotel has transformed the historic, century-old grand central post office next to Tivoli Gardens into a Copenhagen landmark of contemporary sustainability and luxury.

Via Hansa & Borealis will bet participating as exhibitors and buyers at the Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow 30.01.20 – 02.02.20, held at Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík, Iceland. The renowned Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow has for years been gathering buyers and sellers from around the world and successfully strengthening business relationships between travel industry professionals in the USA, Canada and Europe.

Via Hansa & Borealis will as usual be participating at MATKA 2020 in Helsinki. Mrs. Sigrid Sigrid Kasepold, Deputy Director of Via Hansa & Borealis Tallinn, and Emiliana Palumbo, Project & Contracting Manager of Via Hansa & Borealis Copenhagen, will be attending the Matka 2020 Workshop Day on January 15th.

The Arctic Winter Adventures in the Nordic countries and North Russia offer the most fascinating and invigorating winter activities in the region. The breath-taking arctic nature, authentic snow adventures, reindeer and husky safaris, encounters with the indigenous people and the search for dancing Northern Lights are the highlights of these programs.

Via Hansa & Borealis has effective from May 1st appointed Mrs. Elina Cappadonna, Business Development Manager for South-Europe. Elina is half Italian and half Finnish, born in Italy and has spent many years of her adult life studying and working in the Nordic countries.

Somewhere between Norway, Iceland and Scotland, 18 rugged islands in North Atlantic and their 50.000 people make up the Faroe Islands. A recently discovered gem for tourists and a place of unique beauty and wilderness - unspoiled, unexplored and unbelievable. The locals and their government want to preserve their beautiful country for the future generations and they came up with a new strategy and named it ‘preservolution’.

Via Hansa & Borealis will be once again attending the USTOA Annual Conference & Marketplace taking place at the Omni Orlando Resort at ‘Champions Gate’ in Orlando, Florida, from December 3rd to December 6th. USTOA Marketplace is known for being the only travel industry event in the United States that brings together the leading North American travel companies with tourism suppliers and destinations from around the globe in an exclusive setting.

Via Hansa & Borealis are now effective from October 2019 a member of Nordic Tourism Collective (NTC) and European Tourism Operator Association (ETOA). The decision to join both organizations was driven by the new initiative of NTC to support the tourism trade in Nordic and Baltic countries with the aim to increase the recognition of the whole region and promote sustainable tourism on the core destinations of Via Hansa & Borealis.