Vienna’s signature hotels are in glorious-traditional style. Why not try something different? At 25hours Museums Quartier you can expect a paparazzi welcome. Vienna’s so-fun hotel has a glass porch with an entire wall of cameras, Kodaks and more, jammed together and stuck on firmly to prevent’em walking.

Under the motto ReDesign Tourism | now over 1,200 national and international participants gathered in Vienna to take part in the three-day event which not only sent a strong “Welcome Back” message from Austria as a tourism destination but also discussed the future of the industry. Held from 16 to 19 May, the Austria Centre Vienna was the venue for one of the first post-pandemic international tourism conferences of this scale worldwide.

Austria National Tourist Office (ANTO) is seeking “creative journey experts” to attend a special trade event being held in Vienna this may.

Uniworld Boutique River Cruises has introduced new ‘Nights Out’ evening experiences in select European cities as part of its 2022 Europe program.

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has confirmed plans to open the brand’s fifth property in Europe, Rosewood Vienna, in 2022. The project was first announced in 2017 and had been earmarked to welcome guests in 2021.

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is expanding its hotel collection in Europe, revealing plans for the luxury brand to debut in Vienna in late 2023.

Etihad Airways will launch new year-round flights to Austria’s capital Vienna using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The service will initially operate with four weekly flights between 22 May and 30 June.

Before starting on a tour of two remarkable hotels, let us look at sachertorte, universally the world’s best-known cake. Ever since Viennese pastry cook Franz Sacher created it in 1832, the cake has grown in popularity.

SO/ Hotels & Resorts has launched a new wellness program designed for its “adventurous and stylish guests and socialisers”. The new SO/ Wellness Experience is currently available at SO/ Vienna, one of the brand’s most avant-garde properties, where the program concepts are being piloted in advance of a future global roll-out.

Tauck has added a new eight-day European itinerary to its product line-up in 2020 that includes a three-night rail journey on The Golden Eagle Danube Express, bookended by two-night stays in Vienna and Milan.

Hyatts Hotels Corporation has expanded its luxurious Andaz collection in Europe to four locations with the debut of Andaz Vienna Am Belvedere in Austria.

Emirates’ latest Boeing 777-300ER aircraft fitted with the ‘Game Changer’ First Class product will operate between Dubai and Vienna on a daily basis from 1 December 2018. Austria will be one of the first few countries in the world to be served by Emirates’ Boeing 777 aircraft with fully enclosed private suites inspired by Mercedes-Benz.