A snow filled fun packed February at Semmering Zauberberg

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Lifestyle

With plenty of snow it’s now business as usual at Vienna’s local ski resort at Semmering Zauberberg – just an hour’s drive from the Austrian capital. This month there are a number of attractions starting on eighth February with the Ö3 PistenBully! The DJs from the ORF’s flagship radio program will be helping to turn […]

Biggest resort in Croatia opened by Falkensteiner

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Business

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 […]

Gourmet escapes in Kitzbühel

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Travel

The ski resort of Kitzbühel in Tyrol, Austria is hoping to provide visitors with both a luxurious snowy and foodie experience this winter season with their snow pass packages. The legendary resort is known not only for its 170 kilometres of ski slopes but also for its high class gastronomy. The 60 runs are accompanied […]

Moving mountains becomes reality for some

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Travel

Brand new home swapping club “Snow Swappers” have created a service exclusively for home owners in ski resorts around the world. The website is designed to give owners, who feel the need for a holiday away from home, the chance to explore a new resort at minimal cost. In the current economic climate, everyone with […]

Zau[:ber:]g this winter-Vienna to the slopes in less than an hour

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Travel

By Rebecca Musgrave Less than an hour from Vienna a snowy haven awaits all winter sports enthusiasts. The compact ski resort, Zau[:ber:]g  in Semmering, can be reached by rail, bus or road from the Austrian capital, making it both the ultimate holiday and after work ski destination. Whilst the resort may be smaller than other […]

Boozed-up teen falls off balcony

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General News

A young holidaymaker suffered serious injuries when he plunged off a balcony. The 18-year-old was carried into his first-floor hotel room in St. Kanzian, Carinthia, at the end of a boozy night in town in the early hours of today (Weds). An employee of the resort called an ambulance when he found the unconscious teenager […]

Burst snow cannon hose puts worker in clinic

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A worker maintaining a snow-making machine had to be hospitalised after a water hose burst.Officials in the Salzburg ski resort of Obertauern said today (Thurs) the 50-year-old man’s right leg was seriously injured by pieces of metal hurled into the air due to the water pressure in the incident which happened yesterday afternoon.Obertauern is one […]

Collision puts German skier in hospital

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A 47-year-old Austrian and a 46-year-old German sustained injuries when they collided on a slope in Carinthia yesterday (Sun).The men crashed into each other on a piste in the ski resort of Nassfeld in the district of Hermagor around midday. Officials did not give any information on the kind of injuries they sustained. The German […]

Teen skier hospitalised after ravine plunge

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A teenage skier was hospitalised after crashing down a 20-metre embankment.The 16-year-old holidaymaker from Bahlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg was airlifted to a clinic in Feldkirch after coming off groomed slopes in the winter sport resort of Damüls yesterday afternoon (Thurs).One day earlier, a 37-year-old skier from the Netherlands died after he hit […]

Dutch skier puts elderly Austrian in clinic

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An Upper Austrian skier is in intensive care after colliding with a Dutch holidaymaker yesterday (Tues).The 63-year-old from Ried im Innkreis was skiing down a slope in the Salzburg winter sport resort of Neukirchen when the 33-year-old man from the Netherlands crashed into him from behind.Witnesses claimed the Dutchman was going too fast. Local police […]