A bus ended up with a scaffolding overcoat after dozy builders made it too low to support crumbling architecture at the front of a hotel in the city of Innsbruck. The scaffolding had been put up when large chunks of the Hotel Ibis at the local train station threatened to break off and fall onto […]
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The Salzburger Hof in Zell am See in Salzburg State has been voted Austria’s hotel of the year . The testers from Gault Millau praised the five-star hotel for its facilities and also the quality of service. Guests are always welcome and personally by the senior manager Gisela Holleis and she’s also on hand as […]
A farm that aims to offer mentally and physically disabled people the chance to work on the land has been given a 2,500 Euro boost from Casino Salzburg and the spa and wellness hotel Ebners Waldhof. The Mathiashof farm located at Ellmautal in Fuschl am See gives employment to 20 people with either mental or […]
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A hotel for dogs that offers a menu of freshly cooked gourmet food, doggy sun loungers and swimming pools and special fitness rooms for four-legged friends has opened in Carinthia in Austria. Owner Friederike Zaubek said that her dachshund Alfi there had been a permanent guest had always seemed to be so happy at the […]
The number of winter season overnight stays by Austrians has reached a new record. Around 15.3 million overnight stays by Austrians were registered across the country between November 2011 and April 2012. People’s Party (ÖVP) Economy and Tourism Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner announced: “Austrians gave the domestic economy a boost and ensured a strong level of […]
The 160 million Euros worth Falkensteiner Punta Skala Resort in Petrcani near Zadar (northern Dalmatia) has opened doors to tourists after eight years of construction, writes the daily Slobodna Dalmacija. The resort is the Austrian company Falkensteiner Michaeler Tourism Group AG’s biggest Croatian project that took eight years to complete, although parts of it have […]
Hotel Rebuild after Christmas fire
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Builders are working overtime at Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Pinzgau to rebuild the “Glemmtalerhofs” hotel in time for the winter season. The property was almost completely destroyed and that was practically just a shell left after a blaze at Christmas. Luckily for the Schnell family that owned the property – the rebuilding work is being covered by […]
A German politician for the newly-formed Pirate party is earning his money through a 49 per cent share in a brothel in upper Austria. Tobias Wandinger, 30, was elected to the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl District Council in Bavaria in Germany recently. But it has now emerged that the newly elected politician is also earning his money from […]
The slogan “love for the fatherland instead of Moroccan thieves” has got the FPÖ’s leading candidate in the Innsbruck municipal elections into financial trouble. The Innsbruck hotel owner August Penz, who was also a prominent FPÖ candidate in the municipal elections in Innsbruck, suffered a financial set back after many of his hotel guests cancelled […]
Coining it in
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Austrian hotel manager Rainer Ogrinigg is booked out after offering to allow guests to pay in Austrian Schillings and German Marks rather than Euros. Ogrinigg, who owns the Seehotel Grundlsee in Ausseerland in the Austrian lake district the Salzkammergut, confirmed it is now possible for guests to pay in German Marks. The offer was made […]