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 * Austria** borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.

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Who's Who Working on Responsible Travel and Ecotourism in German-Speaking Europe

recommended listening
[|Kreisky Forum]

Tourism Portals
[|Austria Info] http://www.austria.info - http://www.experienceaustria.com

Flickr Groups
[|Austria Hiking] [|Vienna in Focus] [|Vienna]

twitter
[|@respontour] [|@NP_Austria] [|@austriatravel] - official twitter chanel of Austria Tourism office @ViennaInfoB2B

wikipedia
[|Austria]

Public bodies
[|Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth: Directorate General Tourism & Historic Buildings] [|Austrian Hotel and Tourism Bank (ÖHT)] [|Statistic Austria - Tourism]

Maps
Official topographic digital map of Austria []

Vienna
http://www.wien.info/en http://www.wien.info [|Vienna - Wikipedia] Volksgarten (People's Garden) http://www.restaurantmader.com http://twitter.com/Events_Wien

Monument to the composer Johann Strauss II in Vienna's City Park (Stadtpark) on [|flickr]

Beethoven's ninth symphony was first performed, on may 7th, 1824. In honor, Raudio Special brings you, as a continuous 24/7 audio webstream, '[|9 Beet Stretch]' by idea-based artist Leif Inge. '9 Beet Stretch' is a recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth symphony stretched to 24 hours, without pitch distortion.

Airport: [|Vienna International (VIE)]

Festival of Vienna Traditional Songs (Wienerlied) - [|www.weanhean.at]

Viennese Food - []

Hiking in and around Vienna - hiking paths laid out by the City’s Forestry Office are well signposted and accessible by public transport. They are properly kept and secured regularly, disposing of a high level of infrastructure. There are children’s playgrounds along the way, as well as picnic tables and seating with fabulous views or nearby wood glades. []

Parks and Gardens in Vienna - []

Breweries in Vienna - []

[|Freud's Vienna] Take a personal tour through the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis. In the 50 years before he emigrated to escape the Nazis, Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and six children lived and worked in the house at Berggasse 19 in Vienna. His most famous works were penned there, his most famous patients bared their 'souls' there. Now the address houses the Freud museum.

Natural History Museum
In display halls covering 8.700² metres the visitor can travel through our planet’s history, through the breathtaking diversity of nature and back to the origins of our culture. [|http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/]

Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
With an extraordinary collection of applied and contemporary art, the MAK serves a dual purpose as a conservator of significant art objects and as a center for the scientific research of art with a special emphasis on its production, preservation, and reorientation. The MAK regards itself as a laboratory of artistic production and a research center of social awareness. The powerful ideas created here today will serve as models for tomorrow. [|http://mak.at]

Wien Museum
Wien Museum is a general-purpose metropolitan museum with a wide range of collections and exhibitions – from the history of the city to art, fashion and modern culture, from the earliest settlements to the present day. Because of its general approach and interdisciplinary potential, it occupies a unique position among Vienna’s museums. It has sites throughout the city. Taking the city of Vienna as a model, it explores the general theme of social, cultural and urban change in comparison with other cities. []

Money Museum and Collections
The OeNB’s [|Money Museum]presents monetary issues, including monetary history, to the general public with exhibits that describe the development of money from its origins to the present day. The museum offers free tours for groups of ten and more persons, the Money Museum has also designed a comprehensive program catering especially to kindergarten groups and schoolchildren.

Education
MODUL University Vienna promotes seminars about the [|current trends in the tourism industry], where professionals from different sectors are invited to present the most recent developments in their business.

Sustainable Tourism
Austrian Label for environment friendly tourism (accommodation, camping, inbound, gastronomy) [|http://www.umweltzeichen.at]

[|Natura Trails] are walking tracks through Natura 2000 areas promoting gentle travel and increasing awareness for the protection of characteristic animals, plants and habitats.

Friends of Nature Houses in Austria - [|http://www.naturfreunde-huetten.at]

[|respect - Institute for Integrative Tourism & Development] is the tourism brand of Naturefriends International. respect is committed to the thematic field of worldwide tourism and its impacts on societies, environment and development.

[|Austria's Hiking Villages]: The society of Austria's Hiking Villages was founded in 1991 under the name "Village Holidays in Austria" and aimed at supporting and promoting ecologically demanding tourism according to selected, strict criteria such as typical appearance of a village, ecological limits, minimum measures and social limits. The Initiative International was awarded the "Tourism for Tomorrow Award" in 1993.

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Protected Areas
Nationalparks Austria ist die Klammer, die alle sechs österreichischen Nationalparks zusammenhält. [|http://www.nationalparksaustria.at] [|@NP_Austria]

[|Austrian Nature Parks] represent a diversity of characteristic landscapes, distinguished through their inviolacy, their natural and cultural highlights and a broad spread of possibilities to enjoy, experience and comprehend nature. Today there are 45 Nature Parks in Austria, covering an area altogether of 400.000 ha. A Nature Park is a protected landscape that was created through the inter-action of people and nature. Very often these landscapes took many centuries to form into their current shape, and they thus need to be conserved and maintained by the people who live here. In Nature Parks this cultural landscape of special aesthetic appeal is opened up for the visitors through special arrangements and accessed as an area for recreation.

[|National Parks in Austria]
So far six of the ecologically most valuable regions of Austria have been declared national parks. They cover 2,350 km² or about 3% of the national territory. Taking a special place in nature conservation affairs they are not only of importance for Austria but also of interest internationally.

[|Danube Floodplain National Park]
The Danube Floodplain National Park (NP Donau-Auen) between Vienna and Bratislava protects one of the last major river floodplains of Central Europe still unspoilt by building. The dynamism of the flowing river is still active here: The rising and sinking water levels determine the rhythm of life in the floodplain. > more about: Danube Floodplain National Park: Precious Nature for Generations

[|Gesaeuse National Park]
The Gesaeuse National Park along the river Enns gorge is the youngest of Austria’s national parks. Its nature is dominated by rocks, alpine pastures, forests and the wild waters of the river Enns. In addition to nature conservation and the exploration of ecosystems, recreation and environmental education are the key tasks of the Gesaeuse National Park.

[|Hohe Tauern National Park]
In the border area between the Federal Provinces of Carinthia, Salzburg and the Tyrol there is the largest national parks of the Alps. It includes the mightiest peaks of Austria, the biggest glacier of the Eastern Alps, and the most imposing waterfalls of Europe. The Hohe Tauern National Park is an oasis of silence and recreation but also an experience of a special kind for the nature-oriented visitor. > more about: Hohe Tauern National Park

[|Limestone Alps National Park]
The Upper Austrian Limestone Alps National Park in the mountain ranges of the Sengsengebirge and Reichraminger Hintergebirge is the largest protected forest area of Austria. It comprises 20,825 ha and extends from an altitude a. s. l. of 385 to almost over 2000 m. It is a colourful mosaic of extensive forests, hidden gorges, untouched mountain brooks and pleasant alpine pastures. > more about: Limestone Alps National Park: A Sea of Trees and a Castle of Water

[|Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park]
This steppe national park that crosses international borders was established in 1993. One part of its territory belongs to Austria (100 km2) and one part to Hungary (150 km2). The park ranks among the most fascinating natural areas of Europe: the open water and reed-covered zones of Lake Neusiedl, the meadows close to the water, the pasture land, and the saline and periodically dry pools are the habitats that this park has to offer. > more about: Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park

[|Thaya Valley National Park]
The river Thaya has created a unique landscape along the border with the Czech Republic: the Thaya Valley. In the shadow of the “Iron Curtain” this valley has remained almost untouched over decades. Today the Thaya Valley National Park in Austria and the Podyjí National Park in the Czech Republic protect this diverse and valuable environment.

Intangible Cultural Heritage
[|National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage]

World Heritage Sites
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[|Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (1996)]
Salzburg, with its dramatic townscape and historically significant urban fabric, together with its proliferation of prominent ecclesiastical and secular buildings from across the ages, is a salient example of an European ecclesiastical city-state.

[|Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn (1996)] The ensemble constitutes an especially well preserved example of the Baroque princely residence in the form of a synthesis of arts.

[|Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape (1997)]
This alpine region is an outstanding example of a natural landscape of great beauty and scientific interest.

[|Semmering Railway (1998)]
The Semmering Railway represents a notable technological solution to a major physical problem in the construction of early railways, thereby creating a new form of cultural landscape.

[|City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg (1999 and 2010) (1999)]
The historic centre of the city of Graz reflects artistic and architectural movements originating from the Germanic region, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, for which it served as a crossroad for centuries. The urban complex is an exceptional example of a harmonious integration of architectural styles from successive periods. The urban physiognomy faithfully tells the story of its historic development. Schloss Eggenberg, constructed shortly after 1625 by the architect of the Graz Court, Pietro de Pomis, was built as a state residence of Duke Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg (1568–1634), one of the most prominent political personalities of 17th century Austria. The large four-winged site with three arcade courts and a crowning central tower is recognized as the most representative example of early baroque palace construction in Austria. Thus it became a prototype of building for the nobility of the following two centuries.

[|Wachau Cultural Landscape (2000)]
The Wachau is an outstanding example of a riverine landscape bordered by mountains in which material evidence of its long historical evolution has survived to a remarkable degree. The architecture, the human settlements, and the agricultural use of the land in the Wachau vividly illustrate a basically medieval landscape which has evolved organically and harmoniously over time.

[|Historic Centre of Vienna (2001)]
Three key periods of European cultural and political development – the Middle Ages, the Baroque period, and the Gründerzeit, the era of industrialization in Austria, – are exceptionally well illustrated by the urban and architectural heritage of the Historic Centre of Vienna. Since the 16th century Vienna has been universally acknowledged to be the musical capital of Europe.

[|Fertö-Neusiedler See Cultural Landscape (jointly with Hungary, 2001)]
Fertö/Neusiedler See has been the meeting place of different cultures for eight millennia. Its varied landscape bears witness to this intercultural development process.

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Mountains
The Grossglockner peak (3,798 meters) is the highest in Austria. http://www.grossglockner.at/en/grossglockner/erstbesteigung-grossglockner.htm

Regional portals
Waldviertel - [] Attractions of Lower Austria - [|http://www.ausflug.at] Tirol [] Vorarlberg [] Wien / Vienna [] Kärnten / Carinthia [] [] Burgenland [] Salzburger Land [] Lower Austria [] Upper Austria - []

Accommodation
"Organic" hotels - http://biohotels.info/en/hotels-accomodation/holiday-regions/austria/ JUFA guesthouses are characterised by functional furnishings and fittings, the use of natural and regional construction materials and the excellence of their infrastructure. The select location of the guesthouses is in regions of outstanding natural beauty and the individual atmosphere. [] [|Boutique Hotel Stadthalle] in Vienna claims to be the first city hotel worldwide with a zero energy balance.

Hiking
Wanderdörfer - 50 hiking regions in Austria - [] Long distance Hiking Trails - []

Cycling
[|Citybike Wien] - Free citybike in Vienna. "The Citybike Wien system is an innovative and environmentally friendly means of public transport and not a conventional bike rental system.You can hire bikes at 58 bike stations across Vienna and return them at any station, independent of where you started your trip. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." Cycling in Vienna - http://www.wien.gv.at/english/leisure/bike/

[|http://nextbike.at] - Cycle rent system

Cycle magazines
[|http://velosophie.at] [|http://bikingvienna.at]

**Public Transport**
Austrian Railways ([|OEBB.at])

[|http://www.waldviertlerbahn.at] - 760mm train line through Austria's forest district, today used as a tourists train only with regular steam train rides.

Moving in Vienna - Wiener Linien - Offering information about tickets and brochures, as well as details about information offices, ticket shops and the Vienna Tram Museum. [|http://www.wienerlinien.at]

Accessible Travel
Austrian Railways info on accessible travel [] Accessible Vienna Info about How to get there, Public Transport, Specialised tour guides [|http://www.wien.info/en/travel-info/accessible-vienna?set_language=en] Organized Individual Tours: 3 day treasure hunt in Graz, 6 day city experience Vienna, 8 day handbike tour through southeast Styria []

Language
Language in Austria - a German-Austrian dictionary - [|http://www.ostarrichi.org] Regional dialects - []

Viennese Dialect
[] [] Vienna Folk Music Society - []

Food
http://delicious.com/respontour/Gastronomie+Oesterreich Beer: [|http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9800895/index1.html] Traditional Food Products - List of traditional Austrian food products, fruits, beverages, dishes - []

Renewable Energy
[|Eco Energy Land] consists of 10 communities: Güssing, Güttenbach, St.Michael, Tobaj, Strem, Heiligenbrunn, Moschendorf, Eberau, Bildein and Deutsch Schützen/Eisenberg. Explore Eco Energy Land with its energy production facilities and its unique wood crafts! And at the latest you will notice that “Eco-” does only apply to energy, but also to unsullied, intact nature when you discover Eco Energy Land on the 125 km of specially-marked Eco Energy Land bike trail or enjoy an excellent red wine from our winegrower’s idyll. [|European Centre for Renewable Energy] Güssing develops lasting regional and community-based concepts for energy conservation and for the generation and use of renewable energy. [|EcoEnergy Tourism]

Events
[|CSR-days at Ferienmesse Wien]

Travel shows and fairs
Blühendes Österreich - Garden, Holiday and Caravaning, Wels, Upper Austria [] Caravan Salon Austria, Wels, Upper Austria [] Photo+Adventure 2010 - Fair for Travel, Photography and Outdoor, Vienna []

Ferien-Messe Wien, International Fair for Holiday, Travel and Leisure, Vienna [] Alles für den Gast, Herbst - International Fair for Gastronomy and Hospitality, Salzburg [] Freizeit - Fair for Travel, Caravan, Sport, Hiking, Klagenfurth, Carinthia [] Ferien-Messe Salzburg, International Fair for Holiday, Travel and Leisure, Salzburg []

Awards
[|tourissimus] - Austrian Tourism Research Award [|National Tourism Award] - Staatspreis Tourismus

Thematic routes
Iron, Gothic Art, Romanticism Routes in Upper Austria [] Wine Route in Lower Austria [] Cheese Route in Bregenzer Wald - []

Tourism Statistics and Studies
[] Institute for Leisure and Tourism Research - http://www.freizeitforschung.at/ publishes the Tourismus-Analyse ([|pdf])

Tourism Associations
Österreichischer Reisebüro Verband ÖRV (Austrian Travel Agency Association) [] Corps Touristique []

Travel Media
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Universities
Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism - []

Elsewhere
[] - [|Kreativ Reisen Österreich - Creative Tourism Austria]

[] [] [|Tag des Denkmals - Austrian Heritage Days] Learning German in Vienna - [] Farm holidays in Austria - [] Maps [] [] [|ÖGAF] - Austrian Society for Applied Research in Travel and Tourism [|European Forum Alpbach] - Every year speakers and participants from all parts of the world, from science, economics and politics, experienced experts and students, come together in Alpbach to discuss the current issues and to formulate interdisciplinary solutions. The open character of the events promotes a climate of tolerance for different opinions and contributes to the overcoming of national, ideological and disciplinary boundaries in a harmonius way.

Hallstatt http://nomoneywilltravel.com/2015/01/09/why-you-should-skip-hallstatt/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt

On 16 June 2011, plans to build a replica in China were first reported. On 2 June 2012, it was reported that Chinese mining company China Minmetals Corporation built a full-scale replica of the entire town in Huizhou, Guangdong province. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-18327751

Kitzbuehel

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