Austria News

The arduous discussion about mushrooms in Austrias forests does not end.
Land and forests owner demand a new police unit who should protect the mushrooms in their forests. In future they also want to sell licenses to people who want to enter a forest in Austria.

Austrias tourism manager are quite upset about such plans. They see [...]

Tourists who just stay for one day, are very imporant for the net product of Salzburg.
Those people generate an added value of 83 million Euro during the whole year. Now the city of Salzburg wanted to know what are they doing, and why they are coming to Salzburg.
The result of that inquiry shows quite interesting [...]

The thermal spring of Bad Tatzmannsdorf has a new attraction in its extensive program.
It’s a new method of a strength training the healthy way called “Kieser Training Methode”.

The thernal spring of Bad Tatzmannsdorf is the first one in Austria, which is going to offer such a revolutionary training routine as a chosen quality partner.
Someone who [...]

Farmers in Tirol are happy about their touristical attraction.
The offer to spend holiday in their farms is becoming more and more popular. Last year the occupancy rate increased up to 11 percent.

But this is not enough for those ambitious farmers in the federal state of the Alpine mountains. “There is still a lot of space [...]

Saturday, the 12th April, is going to be the magic day when the Danube river shipping season starts in the Lower Austrian region of the Wachau.
The family establishment of Brandner offers a lot of attractive trips on their boat along the Danube river, in the beautiful Danube valley of Wachau, between the town of Melk [...]

Making holiday with babies and little children is usually a big challenge for the parents.
Family Tirol Hotels completes this market niche, and wants to offer a stress-free holiday in the Tirolean mountains for young parents.

The hotels in Austrias federal state of Tirol who have such a seal of approval, are reviewed every third year by [...]

Fresh snow and artificial snow makes it possible, and let Salzburgs hotel operators cheer.
Skiing is possible during the Easter holidays in the winter holiday resorts of Salzburg.

The dry period and the sunny weather in February was posion for the ski slopes. The snow was almost gone.
But now the weather has changed, and with the combination [...]

The city of Salzburg experiences an invasion of Swedish and Russian tourists these days.
A reason might be the fact that Russia and Sweden are going to play their matches for the Football Euro 2008 in Salzburg.

There are also more tourists from Greece and Spain, who are also going to play in the city of Mozart, [...]

Vienna is a popular holiday destination.
The tourism industry in Austrias capital has no reason to moan or complain. Vienna is doing very good.

Last year the number of overnight stays increased by 3,4 percent up to 9,7 million.This is the fifth record in the last five years.
Vienna is popular like never before. Especially our neighbours from [...]

Harsh critics received the Austrian gastronomy during a conference of experts last weekend in Salzburg.
A tourism consultant from Austrias Western province Vorarlberg, characterized the culinaric industry of Austria as deficient in terms of making eating and drinking to an adventure.

“Already small things can do it. Interesting folded table napkins for instance”, he explains.
Critics also about [...]

The little town of Leogang is located in the east of the Salzburg province, and has 3.100 inhabitants.
Leogang is becoming more and more popular as a summer and winter holiday destination.

This year the amount of guest beds had to be increased from 4.000 up to 4.400. The new 400 beds are available at the end [...]

The traditional ski opening in Austria usually starts at the beginning of December, but the weather makes it possible much earlier this year.
The first ski areas in Austria are going to open this weekend.

Also many ski areas in Austrias federal state Styria open tomorrow. Skiers, snowboarders and cross country skiers will invade the whole province [...]

Usually it should be something natural that there is a good water quality in the swimming pools of Austrias spa hotels.
But a test should the opposite.
Only one fifth of the reviewed swimming pools had water according to the Austrian bathhouses hygienic law. The test was made by the spa hotel guide “Relax Guide”. The swimming [...]

The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber wanted to know what tourists think about Viennese citizens, and made a survey.
The result was definitely pleasant. “The Viennese are friendly”, was the conventional wisdom.

About 400 tourists were questioned. They are satisfied with the friendliness, but the best rating received the Viennese hotel business with a grade of 1,5.
The gastronomy [...]

The Irish budget airline Ryanair plans a weekly air connection between Gothenburg and Salzburg during the winter season, to bring Swedish winter tourists from Sweden to Austria.
That should be the seventh Ryanair destination in the airport Salzburg.

Ryanair already started to make advertising for the new air route. The price should amount 10 Euro inclusive tax [...]

Austria is considered one of the most visited European countries year-round.
The magnificent Alps attract millions of visitors with its beauty and possibilities for all kinds of winter sports and mountain hiking during the summer.
Besides the rich cultural heritage of the big Austrian cities, such as its capital city of Vienna or the birthplace of Mozart [...]

9 of 10 tourists in Austria during summer time are over 50 years old.
Peace and recreation are the two most important leading motives to spend a holiday in Austria. This is the result of a survey of the Tourismus-Monitor Austria (T-Mona) and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.

26 percent of Austrias guests come for a “summer [...]

The number of British tourists in the “Europe Sport Region” of Zell am See doubled in the past 8 years.
Every fifth tourist of Zell am See comes from United Kingdom. There were 160.000 over night stays of British tourists last summer.

Such an delighting development results of a better airway connection between Austria and Britain. Budget [...]

Several tourists from Japan paid 300 EUR for a concert in the “Schloss Schönbrunn“, although there was no entrance fee. The Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” reports.
A tourist office in Japan offered travels to the concert in Vienna. The concert ticket was not included in the price. The tourists had to pay 48.000 Yen extra, about [...]

The most popular holiday destinations of the people from Vienna are Greece, followed by Turkey, Spain and Tunesia. Thereby they prefer last minute offers.
Tourism experts see a trend reversal. Travels to Spain and Greece are decreasing. Egypt is catching up more and more.

The most popular holiday destinations for the Viennese in Austria is the federal [...]

Tourism experts level massive criticism about the availability of luxury hotels in the federal state of Lower Austria.
More and more holiday guests want luxury, and Lower Austria is not able to satisfy such wishes. There is only one five star hotel in the whole province of Lower Austria: Castle Dürnstein in the Wachau region on [...]

The amount of workers in Tirol who come from the Eastern parts of Germany, is high as never before.
Many Austrians are not motivated to work in the tourism industry. Foreign workers from Germanies Eastern provinces come and take their jobs.

For the first time in history Germans stand the biggest contingent of foreign workers in Tirol. [...]

The Tirolean holiday resort Sölden is searching for new ranks of tourists. From Saturday on a festival called “Gay Showhappening” will be hosted in the village for one week, which is dedicated to homosexual men.
The “Gay Showhappening” is going to take place for the 8th time. “We made very good experiences with homosexual tourists. They [...]

The Irish low-budget airline Ryanair wants to reduce its flights between London the the Styrian capital of Graz from seven times to four times in a week.
The property owners of the Airport Graz don’t want to accept that. They search for talks with Ryanair, but Ryanair retorts the airport of Graz is expensive and has [...]

Austria was elected by a ranking of the World Economy Forum (WEF) in Davos, to the second most attractive holiday destination in the world.
Austria takes the second place behind Switzerland and ahead of Germany. According to the WEF, those three countries count to the economical most attractive destinations for the tourism industry.

Besides the top three, [...]

“Holiday among friends”, is the slogan of the Carinthian holiday advertising. A different kind of friendship in Carinthia experienced a holiday group of 99 persons from Belgium.
The German operator of the “Hotel Berghof” in the Carinthian village of Mallnitz, wants his Belgian guests to pay additionally for 51 empty beds. The Belgian holidaymakers resisted the [...]

The 21st of February is the international Day of Guides. During this day the Viennese Guides offer excursions for free. This year the most attention is paid to the St. Stephan’s Cathedral, were three different tours will be offered.
In addition, even a guided tour will be organized for the blind people in Wien Museum (Museum [...]

While other holiday destinations in Austria do specifically advertising in Russia to get more Russian tourists, the Tirolean town of Kitzbuhel is different. Kitzbuhel don’t want to be a holiday destination for Russians.
The tourism director of Kitzbuhel gave order to the hotels, not to take more than 10% Russian guests for each hotel. The menus [...]

This evening the 11th world cup night slalom in the Styrian town of Schladming takes place on the ski track called “Planai” .
The host expects more than 40.000 people for that event. The ticket advance sale was a great success. So much tickets as never before were sold.
The night race in Schladming is not only [...]

The new rector of the Catholic Theological private univerity in Linz thinks the manufacture of aritificial snow is ethical not right.
The new rector holds the view, if you are trying to make any ski slope white by force, you commit a crime on mother nature.
“My problem with artificial snow is fundamental. I can only agree [...]