Vienna promotes the world of travel, along with 17 other European cities
Why “United City of Tourism” was born
The initiative intends to dare to benefit a city breakso much so that before Covid this way of traveling recorded the highest growth rates of European tourism. Viennain the sector it set an example and in 2019 it counted 17.6 million overnight stays, exceeding for the first time the threshold of one billion euros in turnover in the hotel sector.
Vienna and the tourist offer
At the tourist accommodation level, the city today is in turmoil in all sectors, starting withart, with the opening of new exhibition spaces and the modernization of many of its museums, one above all the Lower Belvedere. Undoubtedly, among the most anticipated inaugurations there is the one relating toHeidi Horten Collection, welcomed in the Stöcklgebäude annex inside the Hanuschhof palace, which from June will show works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Marc Chagall and Gerhard Richter. Public spaces, on the other hand, have long been no longer parking spaces but places to breathe and relax. The homes are largely innovative and sustainable, combined with modern design hotels on sustainable formulas, co-working spaces, green spaces and culture. More, by 2040 Vienna wants to become one climate neutral city. Regarding the hotel sector, 12 new hotels will open by the end of the year, for a total of 2,000 rooms, among these the The Leo Grand, the Almanac Vienna, the Rosewood and the Gilbert hotel, are to name a few. And the food and wine? It has its golden place with the
good wine which was born in the Viennese suburbs. Vienna, in fact it has an area planted with vines whose surface measures 700 hectares, something absolutely unique for a metropolis, and 140 winegrowers raise vines in the vineyards of the Kahlenberg, Nussberg, Bisamberg hills and in the suburb of Mauer, since here the Danube and the Viennese forest creates an ideal microclimate. Furthermore, the ingredients used at the table are almost always at km0 and in any case genuine.
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