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    Accessible Travel

    Enjoy a worry-free holiday in Austria! Find out everything you need to know about accessible hotels, restaurants, museums and nature experiences in Austria's most beautiful regions.

    Travelling without Limits

    Austria is a fantastic country to explore with a wealth of splendid cities, exciting museums, quaint villages, active experiences and cultural events all set in the most breath-taking scenery. It's also a country easy to navigate around, including for those using a wheelchair, with limited mobility, hearing or sight impairments.

    Getting to and around Austria is incredibly easy by road, air and rail. Need travel assistance? The Austrian Federal Railways offer discount tickets for companions and carers. About 400 train stations in Austria are completely accessible, with mobility aids for wheelchair users available at many more train stations across the country.

    Euregio Barrierefrei is an information platform for accessible holidays in Austria, providing relevant information for wheelchair travellers and other mobility-impaired guests.

    Enjoy the mountain panorama barrier-free, SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental
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    Worry-free Holidays in Austria

    Accessible holidays mean that there are no obstacles - neither in the buildings nor in the rooms, neither in communication nor in information. You are free to enjoy your holidays, do and experience everything you feel like, without restrictions.

    If you are looking for accessible accommodation, you will find numerous hotels in Austria catering to those needing some extra assistance. Special equipment allows guests to use all facilities: rooms, restaurants or the sun terrace. Combined with accessible activities in nature, you can enjoy a holiday without limits, literally.

    Walk with the family along the barrier-free hiking trail along the lake Reintalersee in Kramsach
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    Holidays Offers all over Austria

    Accessible Holidays in the Austrian Provinces

    Austria's hospitality is known well beyond the country's borders - ensuring that everyone can enjoy a worry-free holiday is what we always aim for. Therefore, mutual consideration and modern infrastructure are key.

    Guests with limited mobility or sensory perception will find a wide range of offers, both in the city and in the countryside, throughout all Austrian provinces. Have a look at accessible accommodation options, city and nature adventures below.

    Vorarlberg | Tirol | SalzburgerLand | Carinthia | Lower Austria | Styria | Vienna | Burgenland | Upper Austria

    Barrierefreier Urlaub am Bauernhof

    Nature Experiences

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    Holidays in the Mountains

    Whether hiking with a pram, wheelchair or walker, whether with knee pain or other impairments: If you are looking for comfortable ways to walk, roll or ride, you are literally on the right track in many regions of Austria.

    In Vorarlberg, for example, 30 accessible hiking trails are available, from Lake Constance to the mountain regions. Local public transport and mountain railways also ensure everyone can move around easily in the western region.

    The Kaunertal in Tirol has won several awards for its commitment to making the region for accessible. In SalzburgerLand, the Lungau region features several accessible hiking trails.

    Styria's Schladming-Dachstein region has special adventure programmes for people with mobility impairments, while Carinthia has launched a highly regarded initiative called "Experiencing nature for all".

    Barrier-free cable cars in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental
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    Comfortable Cable Cars

    Many cable cars all over Austria are equipped with ramps and can be comfortably navigated in a wheelchair, including those of the Wilder Kaiser-Brixtental. The cable car takes you up the Hohe Salve at 1,829m in your wheelchair, right to the highest pilgrimage church in Austria. Once there, a rotatable viewing terrace reveals stunning panoramic views of around 70 three-thousanders.

    Take the Karwendel cable car up the mountain for fantastic panoramic views of Lake Achensee and the Karwendel mountains, or visit the Alpengasthaus Karwendel, easily accessible via a 100m-long gravelled path.

    SalzburgerLand has a number of accessible cable cars, including those in Lofer Alpine World, with looped trails, panoramic peaks and beautiful waters on the "Auf die Alm" Adventure Trail.

    Accessible Culture Experiences

    If you love arts and culture, you are at the right place! Most cultural institutions in Austria are fully accessible, with many offering special features on top.

    •                 Ehrenhof (Court of honour) Schönbrunn Palace
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    •                 The Bregenz Festival / Festspielhaus, Bregenz
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    •                 Area of Schloss Hof Estate / Schloss Hof, Lower Austria
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    Natural History Museum and Art History Museum Vienna / Art-history Museum

    Arts & Culture

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    Museums: Analogue and Digital Accessibility

    When it comes to museums, it's not just about physical accessibility. It is also about designing the exhibitions in a way people that allows everyone with any kind of disability or impairment to enjoy their visit to the fullest. This means creating exhibitions, events, guided tours or workshops that can be experienced through multiple senses and channels.

    The Kunstmuseum Lentos in Linz, for example, offers guided tours in sign language for visitors with impaired hearing. Special texts, available in analogue and digital form, explain the collection in easy-to-understand language. And guide dogs for the blind are permitted throughout the building for those with impaired vision.

    The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna provides joint art viewing sessions for visually or cognitively impaired people. Visitors can become creative themselves in the studio as well. There are also guided tours where visitors are invited to touch objects and tours in sign or simplified language, as well as special offers for people with dementia and their companions.

    Questions and Answers about accessible holidays in Austria

    Maximum Freedom for Everyone

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