Last year was a record year for Vienna’s tourism industry with the capital city seeing nearly 13 million visitors staying overnight in its hotels. This is a 3.7% increase on overnight visitors in 2012 and the best numbers ever seen in the city. “The fact that we have been able to beat the accommodation record […]
The Austrian central bank has downplayed concerns over whether the real estate bubble in Vienna and the rest of the country could shake financial stability. However the central bank said on Monday it will be monitoring the situation by creating a new fundamental price indicator. Residential real estate in Austria increased 39% between 2007 and […]
The Austrian post office wants to reduce the number of people having to come and pick up packages from post collection centres in the Austrian capital of Vienna. By the end of the year the postal service wants to double the number of parcel boxes in apartments blocks in the city meaning that less people […]
By Oliver Rosenauer International students encounter a great deal of challenges when they decide to study abroad. Aside from the usual language barriers there are a series of questions related to jobs, university registration concerns and how to settle into life abroad. In Vienna a group of former Webster University students decided to dramatically change […]
Wiener Linien the operator of Vienna’s underground trains has announced that the U4 line is to undergo works and be modernised. As part of these modernising works parts of the U4 will have to be closed. From May until September 2016 no trains will travel between Hütteldorf and Schönbrunn – with the exception of May […]
The future of the panda couple at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo is still uncertain. Despite the latest offspring there is still no new contract form Beijing China for the pandas who are on loan in the Austrian capital. Just before Christmas Schönbrunn Zoo announced that the panda pair Yang Yang and Long Hui were to remain […]
The Vienna Stadtkino cinema is to move from its current location to the Vienna Künstlerhaus from September. This move ends years of discussions about the future of the cinema and should signalise improvements for the cinema goers as well as all those involved in the cinema. The Stadtkino has been located on Vienna’s Schwarzenbergplatz for […]
From September 2nd a life-size replica of Anne Frank will be on show at Madame Tussauds located at Vienna’s Prater theme park. The wax work of Justin Bieber is to leave Vienna and move on to an exhibition in Tokio. There is already an Anne Frank figure at the Madame Tussauds in Berlin and Amsterdam. […]
The Kahlenberg in Vienna could be set to get a cable car according to new reports. The Vienna Chamber of Commerce recommends the implementation of the cable car saying it would be great for tourism. The new concept is to be presented on Friday by Josef Bitzinger, Tourism Representative at the Chamber of Commerce and […]
Vintners in Vienna are celebrating after the Vienna Gemischter Satz wine was awarded the DAC (Districtus Austriae Controllatus) quality stamp. In order to get this seal of approval a series of criteria has to be filled. For example the Gemischter Satz has to be made of at least three white grape varieties, which were planted […]