Searching through the web we came across www.yelp.at and discovered that 2 of our hotels were already listed here. Hence we searched further and  … got in touch with Andreas Rainer, Community & Marketing Manager of Yelp in Vienna. We invited him for lunch and talked a bit about what Yelp is all about and what cross-marketing opportunities there are for hotels in general via Yelp. It was so interesting that we decided to ask him for an interview on our

Like every year in September the Austrian capital strikes a pose as fashion designers, buyers and fashionistas rush to the Museums Quartier for the MQ Vienna Fashion Week, presented by Vöslauer. Fashion shows, exhibitions and parties provide a chance for national and international designers to show their latest creations and mingle with Vienna’s beautiful people. This year the MQ Vienna Fashion Week takes place from September 14th-18th for the third time and shows a large variety of designers from Austria

As we always do write about interesting and upcoming fashion & music events which take place in Vienna or near Vienna, we thought writing about the current RUN VIE – Festival for Urban Art & Music is a real must. This music event took place for the first time in October 2009 and has developed itself within the festival industry in the past 2 years. The overall goal of this festival is to bring innovative artists and musicians to Vienna

This week we dedicate our part ‘Interview’ to the founders of NELOU. Why? Because we like the idea of creating a ‘fashion village’ and because they focus on Austrian designers, giving them the opportunity to position themselves and their products via the platform www.nelou.com. How did we get in touch with them? They were one of our partners at the Lake’s Fashion Days this year and did bring us some great designers. As they are very creative which you will

After having started with our new initiative “Interviews” on our blog in February 2009, today we counted the number of interview postings on our blog … 56 in total, a lot if you ask us. As of today we decided to re-think this initiative and introduce the person we interview a bit more in detail. This week we gave Robert Kropf of the blogazine www.insiderei.com the opportunity to introduce himself as well as his “blogazine” on our blog. How did

It is time to have a closer look at the music festivals that will take place in 2011 in Austria again, and, surprisingly there are more festivals as we thought. Pretty complicated to list all of them, we would end up with an article that might takes days to read. Hence we decided to list the most interesting and largest ones, and also try to answer our question if music does set the tone in Austria in summer 2011. The

1. Who are you? My name is Sarah von Maltzahn. I run www.CityKids.at, a trendy parents’ guide to life in Vienna with children. I grew up in New York City where I had a long career as an investment banker, before moving to Vienna, Austria several years ago with my children and husband. I love Vienna, with all it’s hidden nooks and crannies, the diversity, yet community that it offers, and the wit and charm of it’s residents. 2. What

In September 2010 we started with a new initiative called ‘Fashion Blogger Lunch’ at The Ring, Vienna´s Casual Luxury Hotel. The idea was brought to us by Maria Ratzinger from ‘Stylekingdom‘ and Viktoria Egger from ‘Modeltalk‘. The 1st lunch was more or less part of our cooperation with the MQ Vienna Fashion Week 2010 and turned out to be very successfull, logically we decided to also have some ‘fashion-dedicated’ lunches in 2011. The 2nd lunch took place on January 15th,

1. Who are you? My name is Michaela Amort and I’m a fashion blogger based in Vienna. 2. What do you like about what you do? The best thing by far is to be totally independent from advertisers – which is really special in the fashion-industry – as my blog Tschilp.com is a non-profit project I’m doing in my spare time. 3. What don’t you like about what you do? I wouldn’t do it if there were was anything ☺

During the last weekend of November we were visited by 4 top bloggers from the UK, a representative from our PR company Mango PR in the UK as well as a representative from BMI. As we do work with the blogger scene we knew what to expect (bloggers wanting to know everything and making pictures all the time … working on their blog postings the whole day & night) but this group smashed all! Their program in Vienna was one of