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In the Heart of the "New Europe"

The CENTROPE region, strategically located in the heart of the “New Europe”, has posted the strongest economic growth of any region in the world, surpassed only by South Asia. Membership in the European Union has emerged as a magnificent success story.

The four-country border region – a prosperous and dynamic economic area – attracts international investors with an impressive range of bottom-line competitive advantages (all of which can be found within a radius of 200 km)


 


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Tourism

Tourism in the CENTROPE Region can be best described with the words quality and diversity. Undoubtly the city of Vienna is the tourism pole of the region. Vienna with its vast cultural offerings ranks only behind London, Paris and Rome in the “Premier European League” of European city tourism (overnights by foreign visitors). [read more...]


 


The trend towards quality tourism is reflected in the diversity of offers available and the increased regional specialisation. This broad scope and specialisation is reflected in the multitude of key target groups and different types of tourism that the region manages to addresses, with cultural, congress, wellbeing, as the most important ones. [read more...]


 




Leading companies in the Tourism field:

• Flughafen Wien AG: airport operator of the Vienna international airport

• Austrian Airlines: airline with more than 5.000 employees

• Skyeurope: the leading and largest Central European low-cost airline with its five bases in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

• Blaguss: busline operater, travel agencies with a strong connection to CEE countries

• Österreichisches Verkehrsbüro AG: contains enterprises from all important sectors of the tourism and leisure industry, especially the Eurotours Ges.m.b.H. and its group of 25 hotels, with the Austrian Trend Hotel Group in front

• Eurest Resaurationsbetriebs GmbH: Restaurant operator and caterer

• Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H: sightseeing operator


 


Well-developed educational capabilities:

For the usual tourism jobs like cook, waiter or travel agency assistant the employed persons acquire the necessary skills in an apprenticeship.

The CENTROPE region has a broad spectrum of upper secondary education with more than 25 schools specialised in Tourism. The education is focused on vocational training
On university level there are on the one hand Tourism related studies and departments, on the other hand applied university programs for specific tourism related themes (e.g. health management, vine management, tourism management) Important universities for the tourism sector are the Danube University Krems, the Fachhochschule Modul Vienna, University of Economics in Vienna and the Bratislava universities.

Clusters and institutions:

• Austrian National Tourist Office http://www.austria.info

• Hungarian National Tourist Office http://www.hungarytourism.hu

• Slovak Tourist Board http://www.slovakiatourism.sk

• Vienna Tourist Board http://info.wien.at

• Best Health Austria GmbH http://www.besthealthaustria.com

• Wellbeingcluster NÖ http://www.wellbeingcluster.at

• Culture Tour Austria http://www.culturetour.at

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4 Countries – 1 Unique Business Opportunity


• Extremely low corporate income tax rates, ranging from 16% to 25%

• Highly-qualified employees

• Extremely low labour costs and unit labour costs in some areas

• An excellent infrastructure combined with traditional Central and Eastern European know-how

• An optimal business location for headquarters and production based on a division of labour



supported by the
European Commission

In order to exploit the future business opportunities to the full, also the development of a long-term marketing strategy of the CENTROPE region is a common goal. Together with the project partners and the international consulting agency Arthesia the Joint Regional Development Strategy - CENTROPE Themeworld was developed and published in the CENTROPE Whitebook. Above the Executive Summary of the CENTROPE Whitebook is provided as download.

FDI in Centrope Project facts


The diversity of qualities in the economic area and living space CENTROPE offers numerous still unused opportunities for cooperations and innovation. The initiative CENTROPE supports the process of integration by a systematic developement of communication structures, matching of common interests and the realisation of pilot projects for a dynamic growth in the 4-countries border region of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.