Scandic Hotels, the largest hotel operator in the Nordic countries, will open a new hotel in 2018 – Scandic Portalen – at Norway’s largest congress center, Norway Trade Fairs, in Lilleström. Lilleström is one of Norway’s most important hubs for business travel and the only stop on the train line between the airport and Oslo Central Station.

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The new 12-storey hotel, will be located at the train station in Lilleström and will be the tallest building in the area. It will offer 220 hotel rooms and 500 m2 of meeting and conference facilities. The hotel is expected to be finished in January 2018.

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“I am extremely pleased that Scandic will operate a hotel at Norway Trade Fairs and I am convinced that the hotel will be extremely important to Lilleström as a destination. Its location at Norway’s biggest congress center is excellent and Scandic will help reinforce Lilleström as a trade fair destination at the same time as exhibitions will drive business to the hotel,” says Arne Baumann, Executive Vice President Commercial Property of OBOS.Images courtesy of Scandic Hotels