Travel Massive Nordic Came Together To Celebrate TBEX

On July 12, the Stockholm chapter Joined forces with both the Helsinki and Copenhagen chapters to host a fantastic Travel Massive Nordic at TBEX mingle and party in Stockholm.

The host for the evening, Hotel Rival, is a privately owned boutique hotel at Maria Square in Stockholm with 99 rooms, a bistro with a bar, an art-deco style cocktail bar and a theater with seating for 700.

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Welcome drinks of sparkling strawberry-infused wine were sponsored by Philipson Söderberg and every half hour, there were guided viewings of the property with chances to win prizes based on fun social media games by tagging #hotelrival and #travelmassive on Twitter and Instagram.

ABBA Member and owner of Hotel Rival, Benny Andersson, welcomed guest with a surprise video greeting. There were also several Gold ABBA CDs which were given away as prizes and were specially signed by Benny himself.

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

The finger foods which were Swedish delicacies served in Spanish-tapas style were sponsored by The Spanish Tourist Board, Travel Blog Success, and Geotraveler Media.

There was a live DJ spinning music all night including yummy mint chocolate sponsored by Fazer (Finland).

Special thanks to our host Hotel Rival and wonderful sponsors who gave away some fabulous prizes during the night.

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Curious to read more? Here are a few more write-ups from the evening: 

• Travel Massive PA Hotel Rival (Swedish)
• Klokheter I Bloggbranschen – En Spaning Fran Bbcon, TBEX Och Travel Massive (Swedish)
• Resa med Travel Massive pa hotel Rival (Swedish)
• TBEX Travel Massive! (Swedish)

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Photo Credit: Katarina Wohlfart

Lola Akinmade Akerstrom is a Stockholm Travel Massive chapter leader, Stockholm-based writer and photographer. She is also a National Geographic Creative photographer.