Drop in passengers at Austrian airports

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Travel

Austrian airports saw a 1% drop in visitors last year when compared to 2012, with smaller airports in particular struggling to keep up passenger numbers. Linz Blue Danube Airport showed the weakest figures, seeing the second significant drop in two years, with passenger numbers falling by 11.8%. Between 2011 and 2012, they had dropped off […]

AUA reveals first half-year results

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Business

Austrian airline carrier AUA has admitted that between January and June the number of passengers fell by 3% to 5.3 million. In June it was 0.8% less than the same period the year before. Although it is a reduction Austrian Airlines is not alone in seeing a reduction in the number of passenger numbers which […]

Vienna seeks to attract gays and lesbians

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Travel

Vienna is hailed as an attractive gay and lesbian destination, a recent survey has shown. Vienna’s tourism board carried out the survey on 800 gay and lesbian users of the tourism board’s internet portal. Results show that 91.5 percent of those asked said the Austrian capital was especially attractive to them. Vienna Tourism boss Norbert […]

Salzburg tourism on the rise

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Business

The city of Salzburg is more popular than ever with tourists from all around the world new figures have shown. The figures from Salzburg tourist officials show that 12 per cent more tourists spent an overnight stay in Salzburg in April 2012 than in April 2011. To date the record year of Salzburg tourism was […]

Hitler youth film for schools

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General News

A controversial new film entitled “Hitler’s youth” – Hitlers Jugend – is set to be shown in Austrian schools in a bid to help youngsters learn of the dangers of allowing themselves to be led astray politically. Produced by the young Salzburg filmmaker Lydia Schiffkorn it used extensive archive footage and also spoke to people […]

Teen carjackers collared

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General News

Four teenagers have been arrested after going on a joyride in a stolen car in Vienna.The friends – three boys and a girl aged 16 and 17 respectively – were arrested after being pulled over by traffic policemen on Tuesday night. The officers found out that the vehicle was reported as stolen by a newspaper […]

Quadruple lotto jackpot holds €8mn

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Lifestyle

This Wednesday’s quadruple lotto jackpot is worth eight million Euros, Austrian Lotteries have announced.The company said today (Mon) it was only the 10th time in its 25-year history that none of the hundreds of thousands of participators’ lottery tickets had shown the correct six out of 45 numbers three times in a row.Lottery tickets are […]