Newsletter 9 2005 - October

FIFA World Cup™ 2006 – Presentation of Host Cities

In: Hannover and Hamburg

 

Hannover – Congress & Trade Fair City

Hannover, state capital of Lower Saxony, with 522,453 inhabitants, is one of Germany’s leading convention and trade fair cities acquiring special international renown as host of EXPO 2000. Hannover also hosts CeBIT, the largest computer and telecommunications trade fair in the world and the Hanover Trade Fair, the largest industrial trade fair of its kind anywhere. Hannover has ca. 7,500 hotel rooms and 15,000 B+B. Another 310 hotels are also available in the surrounding region.

Hannover’s long and diverse history lives on in an exemplary number of visitor sights linked together by a ‘Red Thread’ which runs along the city’s pavements – an architectural link between the modern and the old city centre areas. Hannover is a city very much alive with music and culture. Its citizens love to invite people from far and near to join them in their many celebrations - whether at the Swinging Hannover Jazz Festival, the Maschseefest or Hannover’s much acclaimed and colourful Christmas markets.

The Hannover International Fireworks Competition in the Royal Gardens at Herrenhausen is not only a dramatic but a musical highlight of every Hannover year.

FIFA World Cup™ 2006 games in the FIFA WM Stadium Hannover
(Capacity 2006: 45,000 seats)

12th June 2006 - First round Group E
16th June 2006 - First round Group D
20th June 2006 - First round Group A
23rd June 2006 - First round Group A

27th June 2006 - Second round winner Group H and second place Group G

Links:
http://www.hannover.de/deutsch/fifawm2006/
http://deutschland-tourismus.de/fifa_wm_2006/

Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC)

The Hannover Congress Center (HCC) is located in a green field location not too far from the heart of Hanover. It possesses excellent motorway, fast rail and international airport connections and is only a short distance away from hotels of all categories. The HCC is connected to the Congress Hotel am Stadtpark.

The Hannover Congress Center offers MICE planners the following facilities and services:

• 3 event halls and the representative Kuppelsaal
• space for congresses of up to 3,000 persons
• 6 halls for festive events and balls
• 28 meeting and conference rooms, all with daylight and state-of-the-art technical equipment
• seminar rooms for 20 to 120 persons
• over 10,000 m² of ground level exhibition space
• 60,000 m² parkland for relaxation and large festivals
• creative event gastronomy and catering for up to several thousand guests

Further Information:

Hannover Congress Center
Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1-3
30175 Hannover
Germany
Tel.: +49-511-8113-0
Fax: +49-511-8113-429
Email: info@hcc.de
Internet: http://www.hcc.de/

Hannover Tourismus Service Congress- und Gruppenservice
Prinzenstraße 6
30159 Hannover
Germany
Tel: +49-511-12345-333
Fax: +49-511-12345-334
Email info@kongress-stadt.de
Internet: www.hannover.de
www.hannover.de/kongress-stadt

 

Hamburg – Gateway to the World

Hamburg is situated on the River Elbe, some 100km from the North Sea and 70km from the Baltic Sea. Hamburg has 250 hotels with 16,000 rooms and 30,000 beds. Hamburg is Germany’s largest port and a major centre for trade, industry, commerce and culture. It is Germany’s second largest city with a current population of 1.6 million.
 
Hamburg is characterized by its historic fish market and broad promenades, its large port and proud merchant houses, its shopping malls and pedestrian precincts, its international musicals and St. Pauli district, its canals and large brick warehouses. Its parks and woods also make it one of the greenest cities in Germany.

Hamburg port is the second largest container port in Europe, the Speicherstadt is the largest historic dockland and warehouse quarter worldwide and the Hafencity (Port City) the largest urban construction site in Europe. The Alster is a much loved river in the very heart of the city, while Blankenese is a beautiful villa quarter. St. Michael’s church is the Hamburg’s civic icon and symbol.

FIFA World Cup™ 2006 games in the FIFA WM Stadium Hamburg (Capacity: 50,000 seats)

First Round:
10th June 2006  C1-C2
15th June 2006  A4-A2
19th June 2006  H4-H2
22nd Juni 2006  E4-E1

Quarter Final:
30th Juni 2006

Further Information:

WM-Team 2006
Mr Thorsten Kausch
Winterhuder Weg 29
22085 Hamburg
Germany
Email: Thorsten.Kausch@marketing.hamburg.de
Tel: +49-40-42863-6292

Links:
www.fifaworldcup.com
www.fifawm2006.hamburg.de
http://deutschland-tourismus.de/fifa_wm_2006/
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/de/t/2006/schedule.html

Congress City Hamburg

The Congress Center Hamburg (CCH) is the venue in Hamburg for large congresses and events. Connected to the Radisson SAS Hotel it forms a symbiosis of meeting rooms and overnight accommodation. The CCH has a total of 19 halls with space for up to 10,000 guests in total. Some 20 smaller rooms are also available. Room capacities vary from 30 to 3,000 persons.

Should not enough rooms be available here then the Elysée, Marriott and SIDE Hotels are only a stone’s throw away. The Elysée is currently building a new conference centre. When complete, it will be the largest hotel conference centre in Hamburg (www.elysee-hamburg.de) with space for up to 1,000 guests in its largest room.

Hamburg’s hotel landscape has something for all tastes: world-renowned Kempinski Hotel Atlantic – with some Hamburg’s most beautiful meeting rooms located in the hotel’s inner courtyard - or in the Hotel Louis C. Jacob on the banks of the River Elbe.

Further Information:

Hamburg Convention & Event Bureau
Ms Annett Graf or Ms Stephanie Krieg
Tel: +49-40-30051137 or +49-40-30051127
E-Mail: graf@hamburg-tourismus.de und krieg@hamburg-tourismus.de
Internet: http://www.tourismus.hamburg.de/

Congress Center Hamburg
Postfach 30 24 80
20308 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49-40-3569-0
Fax: +49-40-3569-2183
Internet: http://www.cch.de
Email: info@cch.de