Vienna Tourist Board News
Oh, Vienna: City tops global liveability rankings
Releasing its annual Global Liveability Rankings, the Economist Intelligence Unit said the Austrian capital had overtaken Melbourne following a seven-year reign for the Australian city.
Vienna welcomes record tourism figures for 2017
In the record year Vienna recorded 15,510,000 visitor bed nights in 2017, up 3.7 per cent on 2016. At the same time, the Austrian capital saw a 3.7 per cent increase in individual arrivals, to 7,097,000.
Vienna breaks visitor number record as city breaks boom
Austrian capital Vienna recorded almost seven million visitor bednights between January and June this year, 4.2 per cent more than for the same period the previous year. “City breaks to Vienna continue to boom,” said Norbert Kettner, director of the Vienna Tourist Board.
MICE tourism drives visitors to Vienna in 2016
The city of Vienna last year welcome 567,000 event delegates, up seven per cent on the previous year. These visitors participated in a total of 4,084 congresses, corporate events and incentives, up 11 per cent on 2015, with the resulting number of bed-nights increasing two per cent to around 1,718,000.
Austrian Airlines to link Vienna and Los Angeles with new flight
Austrian Airlines will add a new long-haul destination in North America to its flight schedule in the summer of 2017. Starting on April 10th, 2017, a Boeing 777 will take off to Vienna from Los Angeles, up to six times a week.
Vienna welcomes record visitor numbers in first half of 2015
Vienna registered 6.3 million visitor overnights between January and June 2015 – 5.4 per cent more than for the same period the previous year and an all-time record. “Vienna demonstrated its tourist attraction in the first half of 2015 with an increase of 5.4 per cent to some 6,330,000 visitor overnights,” according to Norbert Kettner, director, Vienna Tourist Board.
New record half-year figures for tourism in Vienna
The Vienna Tourist Board recently presented its half-year report containing new record figures: 5.5 million bednights reported for the first half-year of 2012 represented an increase of 8.4 % on the previous year.