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1 Your best choice 5 2 Everything within easy reach 13 3 Perfect hosts: congress centers 17 4 Perfect hosts: venues and universities 23 5 Perfect hosts: hotels 25 6 Outside the meeting room 27 7 Smart meeting destination 31 8 At your service 33 9 About us 35

Your best choice SMART & CONVENIENT Vienna is: compact & walkable green & safe great value & high quality breathtakingly imperial & refreshingly young 4 Vienna from above: Am Graben 5

Your best choice TOP POSITION ICCA Ranking of the world s leading meeting destinations: number 2 in the world Source: International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), 2016 UIA ranking of leading meeting destinations: number 5 in the world Source: Union of International Associations, 2016 Mercer study: World s most liveable city for the ninth year in a row Source: Mercer Quality of Living Survey, 2018 Knowledge City Region: number 1 in the world Source: World Capital Institute, 2015 Innovation Cities Index: number 3 in the world Source: 2thinknow Innovation Cities, 2015 City RepTrak Topline Report: number 2 in the world Source: The Reputation Institute, 2016 6 DC Tower 7

Your best choice Your best choice QUICK & EASY Around 2 hours by air from most European capitals Just 16 minutes (City Airport Train CAT) or 20 minutes (taxi) from the airport to the city center Reliable and safe public transportation network 1,500 Vienna City Bikes SIZE MATTERS! Impressive meeting facilities in a concentrated area 3 different conference centers 436 hotels in all categories with 33,958 rooms More than 150 impressive venues ANYTHING BUT AVERAGE Vienna has a population of 1.8 million, including 570,000 residents from 198 different countries Over 7,400 bars and restaurants with more than 2,500 outdoor seating areas Around 50 % of the city s area is accounted for by green spaces More than 1,300 km of cycle paths 3.9 km 2 recreation area on the Danube Island equivalent to 550 football fields More than 15,000 events with just about every genre imaginable represented 200,000 bees are kept on the roof of the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna 8 9

Your best choice INSIDER KNOWLEDGE The Vienna Prater is twice the size of Central Park in New York It takes 20 minutes to cross Vienna s historic first district on foot, excluding stops to admire the sights The Vienna Boys Choir is the oldest boy band in the world (est. 1498) No other boulevard in the world is home to such a high concentration of monumental public buildings as Vienna s Ringstrasse Vienna is the only major capital worldwide with a significant winegrowing industry within its borders Michael Jackson wrote his global hit Earth Song at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna It takes around eight hours of sleep to work off the calories contained in a Wiener Schnitzel or a single shot of schnapps 10 Vienna Boys Choir 11

Everything within easy reach EASY ACCESS 70 international airlines / more than 170 international destinations Hub for Eastern Europe and the Middle East Vienna International Airport, only 19 km from the city center National airline Austrian Airlines, member of Star Alliance QUICK LINKS TO THE CITY CENTER City Airport Train (CAT) 16 minutes non-stop, city check-in Intercity Express (ICE) train 18 minutes non-stop S-Bahn rapid transit rail service 25 minutes Scheduled bus services 30 45 minutes Taxi 20 minutes Bicycle 60 90 minutes depending on your fitness level 12 Flughafen Wien AG/Roman Boensch 13

Everything within easy reach AROUND THE CITY IN NO TIME AT ALL Public transportation in Vienna: safe, clean, reliable and largely step-free access 5 subway lines, 29 tram routes and 145 bus routes 3 5 minute intervals at peak times 24-hour underground service on weekends and before public holidays, night buses every day of the week The best ways to get from A to B in the center of Vienna are on foot, by citybike, Segway or horse-drawn carriage CONGRESS TICKET Unlimited pass for Wiener Linien public transportation network for the duration of the meeting (association or corporate) Discounted price Can be combined with City Airport Train (CAT) 14 Meeting delegates outside the Stadtpark subway stop 15

Perfect hosts: congress centers AUSTRIA CENTER VIENNA Events for up to 20,000 people Total area: 42,000 m², including 22,000 m² of exhibition space Capacity of largest room, theater-style seating: 4,320 people (Hall ABC) 923 hotel rooms within a radius of 1,000 m www.acv.at Big ideas need big spaces! Unparalleled in Europe, the venue s flexible halls, 180 meeting rooms and outdoor spaces have all the angles covered when it comes to custom events for traditional and new meeting formats alike. 16 IAKW-AG/Marius Hoefinger 17

CONGRESS CENTERS Perfect hosts: congress centers HOFBURG VIENNA Congresses, fairs and exhibitions, banquets and balls for up to 4,900 people 35 multipurpose halls offering 17,000 m² of space for events of all kinds Capacity of largest room, theater-style seating: 1,210 people (Festsaal) 4,800 hotel rooms within a radius of 1,000 m www.hofburg.com Staterooms in the unique setting of a former imperial residence, contemporary glass and steel architecture and state-of-the-art technology the HOFBURG Vienna brings a surprising versatility to the high profile conference and gala banquets it hosts in the heart of Vienna. 18 HOFBURG Vienna/M. Seidl 19

CONGRESS CENTERS Perfect hosts: congress centers MESSE WIEN EXHIBITION & CONGRESS CENTER Events for up to 3,300 people in the congress center, up to 29,000 people including the exhibition spaces Total area: congress center 6,960 m², exhibition halls 55,000 m² Capacity of largest room, theater-style seating: 1,422 people (congress center), 6,400 people (exhibition hall D) 1,220 hotel rooms within a radius of 1,000 m www.messecongress.at Whether it is a conference, a corporate event or a trade fair, Messe Wien provides spaces for ideas to be discovered. Flexible partition walls allow for a wide variety of room layouts in terms of size and usage, providing a unique setting for every single event. 20 Reed Messe Wien/G. Szuklits 21

Perfect hosts: venues & universities VENUES More than 150 impressive venues in Vienna provide the ideal setting for your unique events. The majority of them are located in the city center, within easy reach particularly using public transportation. Historic mansions & palaces Museums & studios Theaters, concert halls & opera houses Contemporary locations & former industrial buildings Clubs & bars UNIVERSITIES With 13 universities, Vienna is the largest university town in the German speaking-world. A vast selection of classic and modern meeting rooms at more than 30 university sites can be hired during February, July, August and September, other periods also available all year round by prior arrangement. 22 Palais Liechtenstein GmbH/Fotomanufaktur Grünwald 23

Perfect hosts: hotels SLEEP & MEET 436 hotels, 33,958 rooms to suit all tastes and budgets Classic luxury & modern design Austrian & international hotel chains Private hotels, budget design hotels & pensions MEET & SLEEP Around 100 conference hotels in different categories Meetings for up to 1,000 delegates in one room Up to 18 meeting rooms under one roof Hotels «««««21 hotels ««««166 hotels «««175 hotels ««/«74 hotels 436 hotels Rooms 3,945 rooms 16,194 rooms 10,931 rooms 2,888 rooms 33,958 rooms Last update: January 2018 Including 7 seasonal hotels offering 521 rooms Planned new arrivals until 2021: about 14 hotels with some 2,200 rooms 24 Loft / Sofitel 25

Outside the meeting room VIENNA ORIGINALS First-hand history and anecdotes: tailored city walks Dancing horses: private performances in the Spanish Riding School The home of music: exclusive tours of the Vienna State Opera and House of Music Handcraftsmanship: hands-on visit to the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory VIENNA INTERACTIVE In step: swinging waltz classes Artistic pursuits: interactive art workshops, graffiti design Bon appetit! Cooking classes, apple strudel workshop, cake decorating Cheers! Wine seminars, tasting sessions, trip to a Sekt (sparkling wine) manufacturer Rollercoaster fun: events at the Prater amusement park 26 Wine Tavern Schübel-Auer 27

Outside the meeting room TIME TRAVEL THE VIENNA WAY Dreams of steam: events aboard the Majestic Imperator Train de Luxe Shifting down a gear: horse-drawn carriages, vintage trams, buses and limousines VIENNESE SAVOIR VIVRE Celebrate like an emperor: gala evening in a historic setting The epitome of Viennese enjoyment: informal evening at a Heuriger wine tavern Viennese Melange: a look behind the scenes of the capital s coffeehouse culture VIENNA WILDERNESS Animal attractions: memorable events at Schönbrunn Zoo Reaching for the skies: climbing and aerial assault course On the waterfront: dragon boat racing, wakeboarding and waterskiing Free fall: indoor skydiving Looking for something? Treasure hunt, Vienna trophy, interactive photo safari Discover Vienna at a leisurely pace: on foot, by bike or on a Segway 28 Summer days on Old Danube 29

Smart meeting destination SCIENCE & BUSINESSES Vienna is: the largest university town in the German-speaking world one of the four UN headquarters and home to 35 international organizations home to the Eastern European headquarters of more than 200 international businesses one of the top 10 economic powerhouses worldwide (Source: Global Economic Power Index, 2015) ADDITIONAL BENEFITS Subsidies for international association meetings in July and August, and from November to March Standard hotel agreement between Viennese hotels and PCOs for meetings with more than 1,000 participants Cooperation with Austrian Airlines and Star Alliance Receptions for international association meetings at the City Hall upon request Custom, cut-price tickets for public transportation Internationally experienced PCOs and DMCs Excellent cooperation between professional service providers Neutral Convention Bureau 30 Campus of the University of Economics and Business 31

At your service VIENNA CONVENTION BUREAU Neutral, non-profit, no members Free services: Hotel and location advice for events (over 50 participants) Optioning of hotel room allotments Interface to service providers in the city Preparation of bid books and presentations Organizing site inspections Brochures, promotional films, photos and maps Publication of your event in the online meeting calendar GET IN TOUCH Vienna Convention Bureau Vienna Tourist Board Invalidenstrasse 6, 1030 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43-1-211 14-555 convention@vienna.info www.vienna.convention.at www.linkedin.com/company/vienna-convention-bureau 32 Opera: Vienna State Opera Ballet principal dancers, Maria Yakovleva and Kirill Kourlaev 33

At your service About us GREEN MEETINGS IN GREEN VIENNA To help organizers do their bit for sustainability, the Vienna Convention Bureau acts as a certification body in accordance with the Österreichisches Umweltzeichen eco-label for Green Meetings & Green Events. Focuses include: Lowering CO 2 emissions Increasing energy efficiency Reducing waste Promoting sustainable use of resources Raising awareness among participants and partners ONE CLICK AWAY www.vienna.convention.at Interactive site dedicated to Vienna as a meeting destination, including Venue Finder www.b2b.vienna.info Media service, texts, destination guide and much more besides www.viennaphoto.com Picture archive with around 1,000 photos (free to download for event organizers) www.vienna.info Comprehensive information on Vienna as a destination, detailed event database The Vienna Convention Bureau is a department of the Vienna Tourist Board and is supported by the City of Vienna and the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. We would also like to thank our sponsors: Austria Center Vienna HOFBURG Vienna Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center Austrian Airlines admicos.congress Austropa Interconvention Columbus Welcome Management Kuoni Destination Management Austria Mondial Congress & Events MAW Medizinische Ausstellungsund Werbegesellschaft ACCOR HOTELS ARCOTEL Kaiserwasser ARCOTEL Wimberger Austria Trend Hotels Courtyard by Marriott Wien Messe Grand Hotel Wien Hilton Hotels in Vienna Hotel Bristol Hotel Imperial Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel InterContinental Wien Le Méridien Wien Meliá Vienna NH Danube City Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna Park Hyatt Vienna Renaissance Wien Hotel Ritz Carlton Vienna Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof Wien Vienna Marriott Hotel 34 35