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<strong>Austrian</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Tourist</strong> <strong>Office</strong>, Margaretenstr. 1, 1040 Vienna, Austria<br />
Tel. +43 1 588 66 287, Fax. +43 1 588 66 47, www.austria.info<br />
Contact: Ms Pamela Widhalm, Marketing Manager Overseas Markets, pamela.widhalm@austria.info<br />
<strong>Content</strong><br />
Austria during its most romantic season<br />
Viennese Shopping News<br />
Gloriously Resplendent - Advent in Vienna<br />
Winter magic in Salzburg<br />
ViennaTicket<strong>Office</strong>.com: Quick, safe and easy!<br />
Workshops 2007<br />
actb 2007<br />
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Austria during its most<br />
romantic season.<br />
Stroll through Vienna’s shopping streets, enjoy the<br />
most romantic time of the year at one of the<br />
atmospheric Christmas markets and, there, shop for<br />
traditional handicrafts while listening to gospel<br />
choirs!<br />
Done that?<br />
Then jump onto the train to visit nearby Salzburg,<br />
listen to “Advent Singing” with well-known<br />
compositions such as “Silent Night” and take the<br />
Snow Shuttle to one of the numerous skiing resorts<br />
for an unforgettable day in the mountains!<br />
Viennese Shopping News<br />
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Tiffany’s, Chanel, Gucci et al - Luxury from<br />
Vienna<br />
Lovers of luxury are in for a treat. This autumn,<br />
New York jewelers Tiffany & Co are opening a store<br />
on Vienna’s Kohlmarkt, joining the ranks of Loius<br />
Vuitton, Chanel, Armani, Gucci and Akris. “The<br />
Golden U”, as the area around Kohlmarkt, Graben<br />
and Kärntner Strasse is called in Vienna, has been<br />
a luxury thoroughfare since imperial days. Today,<br />
the former purveyors to the imperial court are<br />
witnessing something of a renaissance, as are<br />
Vienna’s modern luxury retailers.<br />
Gloriously Resplendent -<br />
Advent in Vienna<br />
During Advent, Vienna is at its most romantic<br />
with a host of atmospheric Christmas markets.<br />
One of the main attractions over the last two<br />
decades has been The Magic of Advent with its<br />
theme world in and around Vienna’s City Hall.<br />
(Nov 18 - Dec 24, www.christkindlmarkt.at)<br />
Just along the Ring boulevard between the<br />
Museums of Fine Arts and Natural History, there is<br />
another new Christmas market this year. Some 50<br />
booths on the magnificent Maria-Theresien-Platz<br />
will have on sale giftware and traditional<br />
handicrafts. <strong>Austrian</strong> brass band music, gospel<br />
choirs and music groups will add to the seasonal<br />
atmosphere.<br />
(Nov 29 - Dec 24, www.weihnachtsdorf.at)<br />
Your contact in Vienna:<br />
Vienna <strong>Tourist</strong> Board<br />
www.vienna.info<br />
Fax:: +43 1 216 84 92<br />
Ms Christine Kupka<br />
Market Manager Asia<br />
Tel: +43 1 211 14 332<br />
kupka@vienna.info<br />
Ms Ines Griesser<br />
Media Manager Asia<br />
Tel: +43 1 21114 363<br />
griesser@vienna.info<br />
© Wien-Tourismus / Popp & Hackner<br />
© Wien-Tourismus / F3
Winter magic in Salzburg<br />
© Tourismus Salzburg GmbH<br />
The days grow shorter and cooler and the timid<br />
rays of the winter sun shine down on the earth:<br />
One of the year’s most romantic seasons is<br />
approaching in Salzburg!<br />
During the Advent season, there are two things not<br />
to be missed in Salzburg: First, to visit one of the<br />
irresistible Christmas Markets and secondly, to<br />
enjoy “Advent Singing”, which can look back on<br />
an especially long tradition in Salzburg. The most<br />
famous and also oldest Christmas Market (held<br />
since 1491) is located in front of the Cathedral and<br />
on Residenz Square, (November 23 - December 24,<br />
www.christkindlmarkt.co.at).<br />
Well-known compositions, alpine songs and heartwarming<br />
melodies will be heard again at the<br />
milestone celebration “60th Anniversary of<br />
Salzburg Advent Singing” at the Large Festival<br />
Hall.<br />
Winter Specials<br />
<strong>Tourist</strong>s can take advantage of a number of<br />
packages, such as the Salzburg Card “Advent”<br />
Package (November 30 - December 21).<br />
The package includes two nights with a buffet<br />
breakfast in a three, four or five-star hotel, a 48hour<br />
Salzburg Card (free admission to all of the<br />
attractions, discounts, free use of public transport),<br />
tickets to Salzburg Advent Singing at the Large<br />
Festival Hall or an Advent concert and the “Silent<br />
Night” tour, starting at EUR 166.00 per person in a<br />
double room.<br />
• Special Advent tours can be booked with<br />
Salzburg’s tourist guides<br />
www.salzburg-guide.at<br />
Silent Night<br />
For visitors interested in tracing the origins of the<br />
most popular Christmas carol, Salzburg and its<br />
vicinity offer numerous sights, as: not only W.A.<br />
Mozart, but also the composers of the world’s most<br />
famous Christmas carol Silent Night were born in<br />
Salzburg.<br />
www.stillenachtland.at<br />
Culture and winter sports<br />
- a delightful combination<br />
The Salzburg Snow Shuttle takes skiers or winter<br />
hikers directly to the ski lifts in Zell am See,<br />
Flachau, Schladming, Gastein, Zauchensee or<br />
Kitzbühel... for just 13 euros!<br />
2006 / 2007 New Year’s Eve<br />
- the whole city’s a stage<br />
The very last event of Salzburg’s Calendar of Events<br />
2006 will literally reach into the new year: Start<br />
celebrating in the afternoon of December 31 in the<br />
Old City until the morning hours... but make sure to<br />
be up and awake again for the numerous New<br />
Year’s Day Concerts!<br />
The Mozart Year is coming to a close...<br />
Last chance to visit the special “Viva! Mozart”<br />
exhibition at Salzburg’s Carolino Augusteum<br />
Museum will still be open to visitors until<br />
January 7, 2007. (www.vivamozart.at)<br />
However, the end of the Mozart Year is not<br />
synonymous with the end of Mozart’s magnificent<br />
music: Every year around Mozart’s birthday, music<br />
buffs enjoy Salburg’s “Mozart Week” (in 2007<br />
from January 26 to February 4).<br />
www.mozarteum.at<br />
Ms Gunda Bleckmann<br />
bleckmann@salzburg.info<br />
Sales & Marketing Manager<br />
www.salzburg.info<br />
Tel: +43/662/88987-304<br />
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© Tourismus Salzburg GmbH
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www.ViennaTicket<strong>Office</strong>.com<br />
Tel: +43 (1) 505 77 66 18<br />
Again in March 2007, the <strong>Austrian</strong> <strong>National</strong><br />
<strong>Tourist</strong> <strong>Office</strong> (ANTO) will stage its annual<br />
Workshops in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore!<br />
During its half day Workshops, ANTO will bring<br />
together leading representatives of the <strong>Austrian</strong><br />
travel industry (<strong>Tourist</strong> Boards, Hotels, Tour<br />
Operators,...) with clients, partners and opinion<br />
leaders of Asia!<br />
For a full list of last year’s exhibitors, please visit<br />
the special b2b sections on<br />
www.austria.info/my or<br />
www.austria.info/sg.<br />
For detailed information, please contact<br />
pamela.widhalm@austria.info<br />
We look forward to your participant!<br />
Next event for the Tourism Industry coming up in<br />
Austria:<br />
actb 2007<br />
The <strong>Austrian</strong> and Central European Travel<br />
Business will be held from 28 to 30 January 2007<br />
in Vienna.<br />
Find more information about Austria’s largest<br />
tourism trade show and its shift to a central<br />
European level (together with Hungary, the Czech<br />
Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia) on its website<br />
www.actb.eu!<br />
Requests, questions,<br />
remarks?<br />
Please contact Ms Pamela Widhalm:<br />
pamela.widhalm@austria.info<br />
Check out the New <strong>Austrian</strong> Business Class on<br />
www.austrian.com<br />
Fly six times weekly<br />
Kuala Lumpur-Vienna-Kuala Lumpur<br />
Fly three times weekly<br />
Singapore-Vienna-Singapore<br />
Kuala Lumpur Town <strong>Office</strong><br />
enquiry.kul@aua.com<br />
Singapore Town <strong>Office</strong><br />
enquiry.sg@aua.com
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