Vienna will dim street lighting and reduce Christmas illuminations this year as part of the city's energy saving measures; according to the city spokeswoman “there will be no Christmas illuminations on the Ring”

6 new hotels in Austria joined the international collection of independent quality hotels Quality Lodgings, marking its largest-ever single-country expansion and bringing the collection to 134 hotels across eight European countries

Over 70.000 visitors have been counted at the Eurovision village according to Vienna City Marketing, while around 5.000 staged a street protest ahead of the grand finale amid a geopolitical storm with five countries boycotting over Israel’s participation

To mark World Heritage Day, Vienna's Natural History Museum and the Hallstatt region organized “Unveiling Hidden World Heritage”; the event showcased finds that are normally hidden from view: from Alpine pile dwellings to latest discoveries in salt mines

Austria’s coalition government has agreed to introduce a social media ban for children under 14, after days of negotiations over how the measure would work