Grossglockner high Alpine road: The most popular tour-the Highlight of the Austrians!
According to the survey, the Grossglockner high Alpine road is the number One destination of the Austrians. The Highlight of the domestic tourists enthusiastic on the ITB Berlin.
Salzburg (OTS) – According to a recent survey, the Grossglockner high Alpine road is the number One destination of the Austrians. The Highlight of the domestic tourists enthusiastic on the ITB Berlin is also an international audience.
The most important travel trade fair in the world took place from the 6. to 10. March in Berlin. The travel industry informed about the global tourist offer. For a strong presence at the Grossglockner high Alpine road, the presented together with the Salzburg airport and the holiday region of the Hohe Tauern national Park to the international audience a sensation in Berlin.
Favorite destination of Austrians
With the Luggage, the Grossglockner high Alpine road had a Team on every case top News: A recent study of the „Alliance partner“ (in Appendix), according to the Grossglockner high Alpine road is the most remarkable Highlight in Austria – still in front of Vienna’s landmark St. Stephen’s Cathedral or the Prater. As the „Austrian point of interest, you would like to see (again)“ is the Grossglockner road is the undisputed number One! This fact also agrees with the large fan base of international car – and motorcycle riders, the fell in love with the curves of the highest Austrian mountain pass. But also hikers, climbers and nature lovers are fascinated by the unique combination of nature and technology, the shapes, the Grossglockner high Alpine road since its opening in 1935 as impressive.
„The Grossglockner-represented in the most impressive way, the alpine of Austria. And with the Grossglockner high Alpine road, we will create a unique gateway to the Hohe Tauern mountain range with 300 peaks over three thousand meters!“, so Petra national tourist office, managing Director of Österreich Werbung.
2019 – on the way to the world heritage
The engineer Franz Wallack in the 1930s, planned and opened in 1935, a monumental road a winding from the North to the South in harmony with the environment and leads deep into the heart of the Hohe Tauern, the largest UNESCO national Park in the Alps. The Grossglockner high Alpine road now is known as one of the most visited and most popular tourist attractions in Austria visitors from all over the world. Wallack was a passionate mountaineer and nature lover, and laid in the construction of a harmonious integration in the natural. The Grossglockner road is presented as one of the most picturesque mountain roads in the Alps. The careful handling with the street and its surroundings was one of the reasons for their nomination to the UNESCO world heritage site. In July, the decision of whether or not the 48 km long Grossglockner high Alpine road, with their 100 bridges, High – rise and art buildings – the largest monument in the UNESCO world heritage list. „The recording would be a high accolade for the street and the entire Hohe Tauern Region and a sign of protection and vibrant use of the cultural monument in its intact environment compatible. The high Alpine road would be next to the old town of Salzburg, the second world heritage site in the province of Salzburg“, member of the Board Johannes Hörl of a possible award.
The most beautiful pages
Great joy made on the ITB, the newly released edition of the ADAC travel magazine. In cooperation with the Carinthia advertising this special issue originated in the of course, the Grossglockner high Alpine road, as the most-visited destination for the people of Carinthia, by several authors, and photographers, beautifully illustrated pages have been dedicated to. The special edition was presented during the ITB, together with the Kärnten Werbung and the ADAC solemnly to the media.
Anniversaries & New Features
2019 is female! 150 years ago managed the first women of the Großglockner mountain to climb. This remarkable anniversary and all sorts of interesting facts and anecdotes about the „rise of women“ and the burgeoning female alpinism.with the new exhibition, the mountain, the [celebrated noun, feminine] from July 2019 to the visitor center and the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-höhe, duly and represented
Also an exhibition on the highest automobile exhibition in the world, also in the visitor center on Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-höhe is dedicated to the 100-year anniversary of Citroen, at the foot of the Grossglockner,.
The Hohe Tauern National Park – 1.856km2 Alpine nature experience
The holiday region of the Hohe Tauern national Park is targets with more than 6 million overnight stays and many attractive excursion from the national Park centre in Mittersill, Rauris virgin forest, the Grossglockner Region to the Krimml water is an important success cases, a factor for tourism in the province of Salzburg and scores with a variety of summer offerings, which were expanded in the past years, consistently and intensified. In addition to the classic summer retreat, the rustic huts of the Almsommers, the diverse cultural opportunities, as well as the great culinary offer along the culinary trail Hohe Tauern complement the classic Hiking and bike vacation.
Mag.a (FH) Patricia Lutz /
The Grossglockner high Alpine roads AG, Rainer Straße 2, 5020 Salzburg
T: +43 (662) 87 36 73-116 / M: +43 (664) 531 94 69
E-Mail: lutz@grossglockner.at