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Salzburg hotels get top marks
By Thomas Hochwarter
Salzburg hotels are among the best in Europe, according to a major international survey.
The city’s hotels were ranked fourth in a study released today (Tues) which was conducted by travellers all around the world.
They
finished ahead of Vienna which came only twelfth in the survey which is
based on 2.7 million overall reviews for 13,000 hotels in 50 European
cities.
Online hotel listings platform Trivago –
which compares the hotel rates of 53 booking sites for 400,000 hotels
worldwide – considers specific characteristics such as room amenities
and a hotel’s environment.
Hotels in the eastern German city of
Dresden topped the poll with an average of 81.39 out of 100 points,
while London hotels have the worst reputation among travellers (69.89).
Hotels
in Salzburg – the birthplace of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – came
in fourth with an average of 78.59 points behind the French city of
Bruges and Bologna, Italy. Salzburg’s five-star Schloss Mönchstein
hotel topped the list of 120 rated Salzburg hotels with an average 93
of a maximum 100 points.
Hotels in the capital, Vienna, only came in twelfth (77.08), ahead of Stockholm and Prague.
Trivago
said the poll confirmed that high prices for hotel accommodation do not
always guarantee good quality since Geneva – the most expensive city in
October out of the top 50 cities in its Hotel Price Index – is only 39
in the rankings.
The news comes just weeks after Statistik
Austria reported summer-season overnights in Austria had declined by
1.2 per cent to 55.55 million year on year. The state agency added the
number of guests had dropped by 0.5 per cent to 15.15 million compared
to the 2008 summer season running from May to September.
The
body said declines in the number of tourists from the UK, the
Netherlands, Sweden and Hungary had been large factors behind the
decrease, adding rises in the number of tourists from Italy,
Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium and France failed to
compensate for them.
Tourism bosses are now hoping the early
onset of winter with heavy snowfall since late October will give the
industry a boost. Several ski resorts have decided to start business
earlier than scheduled.
