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Welcome in Vöcklabruck, Austria! 2 FW/A, 2 FW/B
(2000/2001), Mag. Peter Atzmanstorfer and Mag.
Karin Steinbichler are presenting you some facts
about Austria and the region of Vöcklabruck!
Welcome in Vöcklabruck, Austria! 2 FW/A, 2 FW/B
(2000/2001), Mag. Peter Atzmanstorfer and Mag.
Karin Steinbichler are presenting you some facts
about Austria and the region of Vöcklabruck!
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Austria from space
Lower Austria
Upper Austria
Vienna
Burgenland
Salzburg
Styria
Vorarlberg
Tyrol
Carinthia
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• Austrias landscape

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Austrias topography
Bohemian and Moravian mass
Flat and hilly country
Alps
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Bohemian and Moravian mass
Bohemian and Moravian mass

• part of the Bohemian mass (old varistic
  mountains)
• Wackelsteine and Felsburgen remaining as ancient
  forms
• partly south of the Danube, carved into narrow
  valleys.
• the Wachau between Melk and Krems vine- and
  apricot cultures

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Flat and hilly country
Flat and hilly country

• surrounded by the Alps in the North and East
• flat and hilly country
• important region for agriculture, economy,
  traffic and habitation

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The Alps
Alps

• reaching from the West to the East of Austria
• can be divided into different zones because of
  their geologic-tektonic structure
• partly covered with glaciers
• most important region for tourism

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• Austrias economy

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Member of the EU

• Austria has been a member of the European Union
  since 1995
• one of the wealthierst countries net payer

Austrias challenges

• economic competition within the EU
• to adjust its policy in the fields of
  agriculture, trade, regional development,
  immigration and finance
• Eastern European countries as future members of
  the EU

common economic consensus
4 liberties of the EU
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Member of the EU
Austrias main advantages

• one of the wealthierst and politically most
  stable EU-members
• in the economic centre of Europe
• market economy with strong social an ecological
  elements

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Members of the European Union

• On the way to the European Economy and Monetary
  Union (EMU)

Austria belongs due to the achieved convergence
status to those 11 European Union countries,
which occurred with beginning of the year 1999
the 3 levels of the EMU.
Since 1999 the Euro is the currency of the
participating member states.
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Agriculture and forestry

• small and mediumsized rural structures - Mountain
  country
• 252.000 farms with an average size of 16 hectares
• many mountain peasants, therefore widespread
  supplementary income
• per operation on average only 22 cattle are held
  - ecologically oriented agriculture

• Building of grains 60 of the area of arable
  land
• 60 grassland Cattle attitude and milk
  production
• Cultivation of wine
• Beef production covers 140 of the national
  requirement
• since the entry to the European Union agrarian
  exports doubles - inland proportions are held

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Mining and power production

• on the sector of mining and power production the
  alpine republic has rich resources.

• Particularly in the electricity supply industry
• Austria is water power country number one in the
  EU

Numerous raw material occurrences - because of to
high labor costs at present hardly diminished
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Industrialized country Austria

• Austria is a highly developed industrialized
  country

Important branches of industry

• Machine and steel structure
• Chemistry and vehicles
• since some years large successes in high
  technology

• majority in flexible small and medium-sized
  enterprises structures
• high export quota

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Service country Austria

• as in all highly developed industrialized
  countries development to a service society
• already 67 (1996) of the domestic product in
  the tertiary sector obtained
• Financial services, consultation, health service,
  banks, traffic, trade, public service, personal
  services
• great importance of the tourism - especially in
  alpinen regions of Austria

Trend will continue to strengthen
Leisure company - obsolescence of the society
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Austrian and transit
Centrally located in Europe
Between the booming industrial centers of South
Germany and Northern Italy
Gate to Eastern Europe
Alpine crossings (Brenner, Tauern, Phyrn)
Transit along the Danube
Highly developed railway and street network

• Environmental problems because of the increasing
  transit traffic

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Trade in Austria
Austria has developed its foreign trade over the
last years

• Austria is exporting ist goods to 150 countries
• 2/3 of the foreign trade are carried out with in
  the EU.
• most important partners Germany, Italy

• Export of goods to the middle and eastern
  european countries has been trippled since 1989
  to 131,8 ATS. (16,1 to East Europe)
• Most important partners in trading Hungary,
  Czech Republic, Poland.
• Most important branch transit trade, in
  connection with the transaction of east-west
  business.

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• Austria - Tourism

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Land of tourism - Austria

• One of the most important parts of the economy.

• in 1999 the turnover in tourism and leisure
  indurstry grew to im 456,4 Milliarden
  shillings.
• winter-, summer-, city-, wellnesstourism

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City tourism Vienna

• Austrias capital
• Historic capital of the Habsburg empire
• Headquaters of many international organisations

• historic monuments St. Stephens Cathedral
• museums Museum of Fine Arts
• musical tradition Johann Strauss ...
• gastronomic tradition Heurige ...
• modern architecture Hundertwasserhaus ...
• city for conferences UNO-City ...
• events Wiener Festwochen ...

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Cultural tourism- Salzburg

• capital Salzburg
• up to 1805 capital of the free arcbishopric of
  Salzburg
• Mozarts birth place

• Cathedral built in 774, reconstruction in 1614
  Hohensalzburg Fortress largest, fully-preserved
  fortress in central Europe, built in 1077
• Getreidegasse and Mozarts birthplace, busy
  shopping lane
• Hellbrunn Palace manneristic, early Baroque
  pleasure palace

• Salzburg Festival / Easter Festival / Whitsun
  Festival

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Wintertourism - Tyrol

• One of the most famous destinations of the world
  for winter tourism

• 23.502.028 overnight stays (2001 / 2001
• more than 460 ski lifts and 1700 km slopes
• skiing, snowboarding, cross-countryskiing,
  sledging, winter hiking, apres skiing, ....
• ski arenas around the glaciers for allyear
  tourism e.g. Arlberg, Kitzbühel, Stubai-, Ötz-,
  Zillertal
• continous development of the quality of the
  offers
• critical voices concerning nature and social
  affairs

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Wellnesstourism Upper Austria
Land of thermal springs - Austria
Wellnesstourism in the thermal centers of Styria,
the Burgenland and Upper Austria
e.g. thermal center Geinberg Upper Austria

• thermal springs Thermal indoor and outdoor pool
  with communicative whirl islands, massage
  jets and relaxation areas for your enjoyment
• sauna village meditation sauna with
  starry-night sky and music Inn sauna, the
  oriental steam bath Herbal steam bath,
  Finnish saunas in the sauna garden
• Vital world Vitaltherapie, different sport
  programmes...

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Summer tourism - Salzkammergut
One of the oldest regions for tourism in Europe
Destination for monarchs and common people

• the region around the Hallstätter-, the Traun-,
  the Atter-, the Altausseer-, the Grundl- and the
  Wolfgangsee
• parts of the provinces of Upper Austria, Styria
  and Salzburg

• characterized by salt mining for 4500 years
• salt mines for tourists in Hallstatt and
  Altaussee
• UNESCO world heritage Hallstatt Dachstein

Numerous activities hiking enjoying culture
relaxing mountainbiking - climbing rafting
cave trecking - paragliding etc.
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Sources - Materials - Pictures

• School books
• Hitz, u.a., 2001, Raum Gesellschaft Wirtschaft
  5 bis 8. Wien.
• Derflinger, u.a., 1997, Vernetzungen-
  Wirtschafts- und Tourismusgeographie. Linz.
• Wagner, u.a., 1997, Global Geographie für
  berufsbildene Schulen. Wien.
• Text books
• Lichtenberger, 1997, Österreich.
  Wissenschaftliche Länderkunden. Darmstadt.
• WWW-Sources.