Almost 4,000 people work for Austrian breweries, new figures show.A study published by magazine News reveals the countrys 69 brewing companies have around 3,900 employees. Only Germanys 1,319 breweries (29,604) and the 124 Belgian beer firms (5,190) have more staff in the European Union (EU). There are significantly more breweries in Denmark (120) than in […]
Federal Railways (ÖBB) boss Christian Kern has ruled out tickets becoming more expensive.”Ticket prices should not rise this year. We can save money in passenger services and our infrastructure elsewhere,” he told weekly magazine profil.Asked why he recently called for a 400-million-Euro injection by the state for the debt-ridden company, Kern explained he wanted to […]
Around one million Austrians now and then work illegally, according to a new study.Friedrich Schneider of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz said today (Tues) that a million of the overall 8.5 million Austrians occasionally work without letting labour officials and insurance companies know of their activities.The university professor explained “around 100,000 to 200,000” Austrians […]
Bank Austria (BA) CEO Willibald Cernko has warned tougher rules and new taxes could make it more difficult for banks to find investors.The former HypoVereinsbank manager said today (Weds): “I think the debate over investors should have an Austrian background or come from abroad is totally misleading. The decisive question will be whether we (the […]
A sharp decline in car theft numbers has been reported.The Federal Crime Office (BK) announced today (Weds) 1,915 cars were stolen in the first nine months of this year, down from 3,982 incidents in the same period of 2009.The BK also said the number of car break-ins declined from 16,645 to 13,272 year on year […]
Temperatures will range between minus eight and zero degrees centigrade around midnight on New Years Eve (Fri), according to meteorologists.Forecasts presented today (Weds) show that temperatures will not drop as drastically as on most previous nights when the quicksilver plunged to minus 20 degrees centigrade in some areas in Austria.Sunshine is expected across the country […]
Five Hungarian hikers were rescued from freezing to death on a mountain in Lower Austria on Monday night.The group of friends called local rescue authorities around 9pm after getting lost on the Rax mountain range at dusk.The hikers were eventually discovered and salvaged by a group of rescuers after 0.30am. They were discharged from a […]
Red-faced police in Salzburg have admitted a speed camera has flashed every driver regardless of the speed they were going for several hours.Motorway officials announced today (Weds) a radar trap took a picture of every car going on the A10 Tauern motorway on Monday for four hours due to a technical malfunction.Autobahn workers were eventually […]
A leading Austrian travel company has acquired a majority interest in London-based Hotels & More Ltd.Travel Partner GmbH, which has an office in Vienna and its headquarters in the Tyrolean town of Ellmau, announced today (Weds) it purchased a 73 per cent share in the British company.Hotels & More Ltd. has 40 employees, according to […]
The number of overnight stays by Russian tourists in Austria has soared, new figures show.The Austria Tourism Marketing Agency (ÖW) announced today (Tues) hotels and guesthouses in Austrias nine provinces registered 1.1 million overnight stays by 273,000 Russians in the first 11 months of this yearÖW explained these figures mean the number of Russian tourists […]