Innsbruck a place for all seasons
The word Innsbruck conjures up in my mind images of skiing, snow, gluwein and quaint little Austrian chalets and to be honest that is a pretty good assessment – it is an amazingly picturesque city with massive mountains in its back yard!
Silvana M Giuliani [pictured with a massive map of the Innsbruck ski runs and resorts] who has responsibility for International Marketing and Media for this delightful city told The Mole at actb’07 that while Innsbruck had grown immensely and is now the pre-eminent ski resort in Europe, it is also a University city, but has lost none of its magic and charm.
Imagine going to uni with skiing a few minutes away!
Silvana told The Mole that the amazing thing about Innsbruck was that the mountains were so close and you could actually get a cable car from the city centre to the ski reports and slopes, adding, “There are 25 resorts on the sunny terraces alone between 900m and 1500m without taking into account those higher up!”
“There are nine ski areas with 285kms of downhill and 70 lifts and cable cars so there is never any shortage of ski runs and variety and most are interconnected in one way or another and the amazing thing is that a ski pass will only cost you €165 for six days!”
“If you do not want to ski, the city and resorts have masses of really great shopping, bars, cafes, restaurants and entertainment to choose from and Italy is only 30 minutes away by motorway.”
Silvana said. “We target Australia and New Zealand very much, because we know you are avid skiers, but non skiers also like this area in the summer very much, with Aussies choosing to stay in both the city and resorts and 30,000 overnights from Australia to Innsbruck in 2006.”
“In the summer from the beginning of June to the end of August, we also offer a
free mountain hiking programme, which is very popular with Australians and New Zealanders and the guides are from the Mountaineering School so highly trained and we also offer free shuttle buses.”
“We are also very fortunate that Innsbruck features in all the major Australia and New Zealand ski and summer Europe programmes so it should be fairly easy to book, but if any Australians or New Zealanders want more information, then they only need to contact us or check out our web site and of course they can also contact the Austrian National Tourist Office in Sydney.”
For more information on Innsbruck visit www.innsbruck.info
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