Incentive - April 2008 - (Page 40) TRAVEL Vienna: Popular In-Room Gifts Sachertorte (in a wooden box; different sizes) • Music CDs (Mozart, Strauss, Vienna Boys’ Choir, etc.) Augarten porcelain • Books on Vienna, Viennese cuisine, art (Klimt, Art Nouveau) Miniature paintings of Vienna • Coffee specialties • Austrian wines VIENNA “There are so many stunning palaces to use that the events are always knockouts.” If you’d like to give your incenLouis. “There are so many stuntive travel program participants ning palaces to use, such as the the experience of waltzing the Palais Coburg, that the events are night away, you’ve come to the always a knockout.” right place. In Vienna, waltz Not only are the event venues concerts take place virtually all splendid, so are the hotels. Perhaps, year long. The height of the stay at the Hotel Sacher, which has social season is Fasching (Carnibeen welcoming royalty since 1876 val), which runs from 11:00 p.m. and will make your group feel like on November 11th until Ash visiting dignitaries. The rooms are Wednesday, with a whirlwind decorated with antique furnishings schedule of costume balls and and prized oil paintings. Other parties. Your group can learn good hotels for incentives include: how to waltz and be fitted with the Imperial, the Bristol, the Grand ball gowns and tuxedos to join in Hotel, the InterContinental and the the festivities. You can even creHilton Vienna. ate your own themed ball in a Another important aspect of private palace setting. Vienna is that it’s a wonderful desti“One of the goals of an nation any time of year. Maritz has Attending a performance by the Lipizzaners at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna is an incentive program is to create a done incentive programs there: in unforgettable experience memorable experience, and winter, for a financial services client Vienna is perfect for that,” explains Caren with 75 participants; in the fall, for a food Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Schönberg Bigelow, director of planning and vendor industry leader with 150 people; this spring, and Strauss. Vienna is still alive with the relations for USMotivation in Atlanta, Ga. they’ll bring in an oil industry client with 250 sound of their music. Take your group on a “The city is filled with history and culture people participating; and in the summer, a musically themed walking tour such as without being stuffy; it’s an alive, vibrant pharmaceutical company will visit with 60 “Mozart’s Footsteps” or “Strauss—King of place.” people. the Waltz.” “There are so many options,” Bigelow The Sacher hotel is famous for a special Then there are the castles and palaces of continues. “You can take your group on a kind of chocolate cake called a Sachertorte— the Habsburg emperors. Many of these magrelaxed river cruise on the Danube or to a great for in-room gifts. In fact, dessert and nificent settings can be used for private formal dinner and the opera. With so many coffee has been perfected to a fine art in events. Vienna. In addition to all the planned activities, your participants can just enjoy sitting in the tranquil haven of an old-style coffeehouse, leisurely reading the paper and watch—Judy Jackson, Maritz Travel ing the world go by. Or, they can learn the art of strudel-making with a top Viennese chef. wonderful musicians there, you can even The majestic Hofburg Palace, the HabsOnce they’re sufficiently fortified, it’s time organize a private concert in one of the burgs’ winter residence built in the 13th to museum hop. In Vienna, there are over palaces. And, because the city is so safe, once century, contains 2,600 rooms. Give your 100 museums—from the Albertina, the the organized activities are over, you can let participants a visit to the imperial apartments Leopold, the Belvedere, to Freud’s house and your participants walk around on their own for a peek at the splendor of that lifestyle. the Schönbrunn, the Habsburgs’ summer with peace of mind.” “Vienna is the ideal city for finale-night palace—your group is in for a treat. Many of After all, this is the “City of Music” that celebrations,” advises Judy Jackson, director these museums are available for events. inspired composers such as Haydn, Mozart, of industry relations for Maritz Travel in St. Incentive 40 | | April 2008 | incentivemag.com http://incentivemag.com
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