AlpenParks - The Tourism Company

Vienna. 71% of the Alpine hotel market in Austria still consists independent, family-run hotels – but more and more brands of international hotel groups are gaining a foothold in Austria's mountains, including Kempinski, Six Senses, Dorint and Arcona as well as domestic hotel groups such as AlpenParks, Alps Residenz or Vaya. While large investors, however, are hardly willing to spend, the more so the operators. Yet buy-to-let encounters many questions when it comes to second home ownership.

Vienna. Alm villages and chalets are shooting up across Austria. Neither of these have anything to do with traditional Swiss chalets or aristocratic villas, above all because they are conceived right from the very start as mega complexes. Real estate and construction firms are piling in, also from Germany. Competition is growing with the pure hotels, even if some hoteliers are building chalets themselves as supplement. The overnight figures from commercial holiday properties, which are often also second homes, increased over the past winter, up by more than 17% – more than twice as big as rise as for other forms of accommodation in Austria.