Steigenberger Hotel to become Ringhotel

Vahrn/Brixen. Despite its "small chain" status, South Tyrol's Falkensteiner hotel group in Brixental has proved itself to be the most expansive of all other groups in the Alpine region. "We are ambitious yet still have both feet on the ground. We are a down-to-earth group," joint owner Erich Falkensteiner says. Falkensteiner presently operates 12 of the 26 hotels in Austria; four of these opened in this and in the previous year alone. By the end of 2006, the group plans to move their headquarters to Vienna.