Austria offers year-round pleasures, due to its unrivalled mixture of landscapes, architecture, musical tradition and history. The cities have plenty to engage visitors, from the capital Vienna, with its musical tradition, through to the baroque perfection of Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, and Innsbruck's snow-capped peaks.

Austria has a huge number of architecturally impressive and culturally important buildings, from churches and monasteries to castles and palaces, and to secular and functional buildings such as museums, administration buildings and more. Some of these buildings serve as the setting for the operas and operettes, cabarets and musicals for which Austria is rightly famous. Music is vitally important in Austrian culture and this importance is felt throughout.

Austria’s landscapes have to be seen to be believed – Alpine flowers coat the mountains with colour in spring, summer provides a backdrop of luscious greens against blue skies, with snow-topped peaks dominating in the winter months.

Ease of arrival
The following airports have international connections: Wien-Schwechat (Vienna), Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz and Salzburg. There are daily internal flights between these airports. EU, US, Canadian, EEA, Israeli, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Singaporean, Australian and New Zealand citizens do not require visas for stays of up to three months. Nationals of African and Arabic countries generally require a visa, also valid for up to three months.

Selection of venues
The outstanding cultural sites of Schönbrunn and the Old Towns of Vienna, Salzburg and Graz, are matched by an exceptional offer of 4 and 5 star venues throughout the cities. Austria also offers cultural venues for use for gala dinners, as well as some historic luxury hotels, in line with the overall cultural feel of the country.