Dry winter shakes up Alpine ski and travel industry
January 1, 2016
Low snowfalls are a big problem for ski resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland, with skiers waiting to the last minute to see where there’s snow.
Low snowfalls are a big problem for ski resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland, with skiers waiting to the last minute to see where there’s snow.
An Austrian champion ski racer was nearly killed Tuesday when an out-of-control camera drone fell to earth bare inches from him. A photographer caught the dramatic near-collision. The skier, Marcel Hirschner, finished second despite the accident; he is currently ranked fist in standings at the World Championships, now being held at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. He’s been champion 4 times in a row. According to Ski Federation director Markus Waldner, who has now banned drones from all meets…
It’s nearly Christmas time, and for many of us that means a non-stop barrage of holiday music, but Joe Kohlhofer, a DJ at Austria’s Antenne Carinthia station took it to the extreme by playing the same song 24 times in a row. The station was buried in complaints after the young DJ announced that he felt people were not in the proper Christmas spirit and that he would therefore play Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ for his entire two-hour show. Station officials were unable to stop him, because he had…
Two tourists from Poland got an extra thrill on the Wiener Riesenrad, the giant Ferris wheel at Vienna’s Prater amusement park: an attendant turned off the ride and went home, leaving them in the dark at the top of the 212-foot ride. The couple, last to board the ride near the end of the day, were still circling when the operator handed over controls to a colleague tasked with shutting down for the night. The new operator apparently did not know there were still passengers on board. At…
A cake from which one slice was cut for Austria’s Empress Elisabeth must be one of the most unusual museum items anywhere. It’s gone on
Since July, the software for Garmin’s popular GPS devices has tried to direct a bonanza of tourist traffic to Preitenegg, Austria, seen above. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Preitenegg? No surprise: It has fewer than 1000 residents.
Seeham, near Salzburg, has been named Austria’s most environmentally-friendly place to live in a competition sponsored by the state broadcasting system, ORF. It was the
It’s been estimated that a huge percentage of the pictures on the internet are of cute cats. Now an art auction is about to offer a picture of cute cats that is huge (the painting, not the cats.)
Vienna’s zoo has a problem with selfie sticks and has banned their use in large areas of the zoo. The problem is visitors who poke them into cages to get close-ups of animals or who get too close themselves.
Austria’s government has just issued rules for travel by hoverboard, granting them legal status for use anywhere a skateboard would be legal. But so far, hoverboards, which skim along just above the surface, don’t actually exist. Or didn’t until the…
Low snowfalls are a big problem for ski resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland, with skiers waiting to the last minute to see where there’s snow.
An Austrian champion ski racer was nearly killed Tuesday when an out-of-control camera drone fell to earth bare inches from him. A photographer caught the dramatic near-collision. The skier, Marcel Hirschner, finished second despite the accident; he is currently ranked fist in standings at the World Championships, now being held at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. He’s been champion 4 times in a row. According to Ski Federation director Markus Waldner, who has now banned drones from all meets…
It’s nearly Christmas time, and for many of us that means a non-stop barrage of holiday music, but Joe Kohlhofer, a DJ at Austria’s Antenne Carinthia station took it to the extreme by playing the same song 24 times in a row. The station was buried in complaints after the young DJ announced that he felt people were not in the proper Christmas spirit and that he would therefore play Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ for his entire two-hour show. Station officials were unable to stop him, because he had…
Two tourists from Poland got an extra thrill on the Wiener Riesenrad, the giant Ferris wheel at Vienna’s Prater amusement park: an attendant turned off the ride and went home, leaving them in the dark at the top of the 212-foot ride. The couple, last to board the ride near the end of the day, were still circling when the operator handed over controls to a colleague tasked with shutting down for the night. The new operator apparently did not know there were still passengers on board. At…
A cake from which one slice was cut for Austria’s Empress Elisabeth must be one of the most unusual museum
Since July, the software for Garmin’s popular GPS devices has tried to direct a bonanza of tourist traffic to Preitenegg, Austria, seen above. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Preitenegg? No surprise: It has fewer than 1000 residents.
Seeham, near Salzburg, has been named Austria’s most environmentally-friendly place to live in a competition sponsored by the state broadcasting
It’s been estimated that a huge percentage of the pictures on the internet are of cute cats. Now an art auction is about to offer a picture of cute cats that is huge (the painting, not the cats.)
Vienna’s zoo has a problem with selfie sticks and has banned their use in large areas of the zoo. The problem is visitors who poke them into cages to get close-ups of animals or who get too close themselves.
Austria’s government has just issued rules for travel by hoverboard, granting them legal status for use anywhere a skateboard would be legal. But so far, hoverboards, which skim along just above the surface, don’t actually exist. Or didn’t until the…