Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Interview with Wolfgang Werner

Tuesday 22th April we got the new date for our meeting with Wolfgang Werner.


Mr. Werner is one of the most successful event managers in Austria. He started his career running performances with local artist in 1985, improved the business and today he’s the director /chief manager of one of the most successful opera festivals in Austria.

We had the opportunity to meet him in his office and had the pleasure to get a lot of interesting information about the touristic scene around the opera festival. We learned, that the impact of the festival was a quantum lib in the development of the region. It’s a fact that the economic situation in the region St. Margarethen / Rust is intensively connected with the opera festival. Tourism plays a very important role in this area. Statistic tells us that more than 15% of the tourist come from foreign countries.

Restaurants, hotels (and private accommodations like B&B) have the most profit from the opera festival.

Kathi and Mr. Werner in discussion




From left to right: Laura Hartmann, Denise Lechner, Mr. Wolfgang Werner and Kathi Mayer


The interview was run by Kathi Mayer (questions and leading the interview), Laura Hartmann (notes) and Denise Lechner (video).

Sunday, April 20, 2008

General Meeting in Seville


The coordinaters of the project had a very successful meeting in Seville. The main objectives of this meeting were:

  • Coordinationg next years work

  • planning joint activities

  • planning and concretizing mobility activities

There is a seria of pictures in out picture album of the project.


Thanks to Carlos for organisation and the care for us all, Arturo for hosting us at his school (and the excellent guided tour through town & the excursion to Doñana/Sanlucár) and all others that made possible this meeting!