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The City Council has put the brakes on a number of hotel projects, but others are being allowed to move forward despite the housing shortage.

A long list of properties in the Indre By area is being slated for conversion into hotels.

Here is one of the properties, at Nytorv 15, that could end up housing a hotel. For now, the City Council has temporarily halted the project. Foto: Martin Lehmann
Here is one of the properties, at Nytorv 15, that could end up housing a hotel. For now, the City Council has temporarily halted the project. Foto: Martin Lehmann
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The tourists have to be somewhere in Copenhagen, after all.

Compared with the period just before the coronavirus crisis, the city has seen 33 percent more hotel overnight stays.

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