Would you like to be featured on VISIT GAMLA STAN?

Presentation / “Business Card”

Hours

Events

👥 Membership in Gamla Stans Företagarförening

Being listed on VISIT GAMLA STAN is a benefit included in membership for members of Gamla Stans Företagarförening. The membership fee is modest and helps fund the technical platforms needed to run the website. If you operate multiple businesses at different addresses under the same organization number, one membership is all you need—we’ll list all of your businesses.

Learn more and apply for membership here.

📢 Presentation—Your Company’s “Business Card”

We’ll create an initial proposal for how your business can be featured on VISIT GAMLA STAN by pulling images and text from your website or Facebook page. The presentation will therefore be in your own words. Write in Swedish! VISIT GAMLA STAN automatically translates into multiple languages (currently English and German).

If you'd like to make any changes or be listed under a different heading, please contact redaktion@visitgamlastan.se. Each company may be listed under no more than two different categories to avoid duplication.

💡 Tip:

Choose good, high-quality photos, and include your logo along with a brief and concise description of your business—for example, a slogan and one or two sentences about what you do. Keep in mind that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that anyone interested in learning more can follow the links to your website and Instagram.

Avoid phrases like “Welcome to our place” or “We have the best meatballs,” since the goal is to inspire visitors to choose to come to Gamla Stan and experience the full range of what Gamla Stan has to offer.

We'll add your business to our map and link to your website and Instagram.

🕚 Hours of Operation

Did you know that the most common search query on this page is “Gamla Stan opening hours”?

We've now made it easy for visitors to find out which businesses are open by automatically retrieving current opening hours from each business's Google Business / Google Maps listing.

The opening hours page is updated every hour, making it easy to quickly communicate temporary changes.

✅ Everything you need:

1 That you are a member of Gamla Stans Företagarförening. Apply for membership here: https://www.gamlastansforetag.se/bli-medlem

2 Make sure your business is listed on Google Business / Google Maps. Create a free business profile here: https://business.google.com/en-all/business-profile/

3 Have a nice photo of your business ready (landscape orientation works best; JPG or PNG format).

4 Allow our AI solution to retrieve your business hours from your Google Maps / Google Business profile by clicking the link here: https://eerfmfdhdzztragqeytg.supabase.co/functions/v1/oauth-start

  • Sign in with the email address associated with your Google Account.

  • Search for your company and click “Continue.”

  • If you can't find your company on the list, please contact redaktion@visitgamlastan.se and we'll help you.

💡 Tips for your Google profile:

  • Öppettidskollen retrieves the business categories you've specified in your Google profile.

  • Hours of operation are the regular hours, Monday through Sunday.

  • Use " Special Opening Hours " for temporary changes on specific dates (holidays, vacation closures, evening hours, etc.).

📆 Events

If your business offers events on its own website, we’ll list you as an organizer so that your events appear in the Old Town calendar. Contact redaktion@visitgamlastan.se to get listed (free for members).

🔗 The right link makes a big difference

Link to the page where the events are actually listed (e.g.,/calendaror/news). Avoid the home page—it often contains too little information.

You can never import events from Facebook or Instagram. Always use your own website—not third-party aggregator sites.

🎞️ Image

Images are automatically retrieved from the organizer's own website. If the organizer has only one image on the page (e.g., a logo), all events will display that same image. Having a unique image for each event on your own website yields better results if you, as the organizer, have multiple events.

Tips for the best image quality:

  • Uselandscape-oriented images —they look best in the calendar cards and the widget, i.e., VISIT GAMLA STAN's featured events on the front page.

  • Just the right size: a width of about 800–1,200 px is plenty. Avoid very large images (over 5 MB)—they take a long time to load.

  • If the image doesn't display as well on VISIT GAMLA STAN as it does on your own website, feel free to ask the editorial team to upload a different image or adjust the focus point. Email redaktion@visitgamlastan.se and we'll take care of it.

📝 Text and descriptions

Our system retrieves the title, date, time, location, and description directly from the organizer’s website. Clear and structured information yields the best results. If dates or times are missing from the page, events may be overlooked.

🕔 Updates

Events are automatically updated every morning between approximately 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., at which time any changes to your website are captured.

🏆 Best Practices

Would you like to see how an event organizer can best present their events with clear links, text, and images? Check outthe Bror Hjorth House calendarandthe Royal Palaces calendar.

🤓 Having trouble with the event's visibility?

If the events aren't working as expected, please email redaktion@visitgamlastan.se and we'll try to help resolve the issue. Sometimes the settings need to be adjusted on our end or yours so that our AI solution can retrieve your events properly.