From January 23 to 25, 2005 Salzburg will be hosting the austrian travel business, the largest Austrian specialized tourism fair.

The [17th] Easter Festival Tirol 05 “Life. Be | Asia’s Smile” is dedicated to the mystifying Far East. The main focus is on China, India, and Japan which is also spotlighted in the 2005 Culture Program of the European Union.

After last year's great success of the Summer Solstice party - more than 30,000 visitors flocked to Innsbruck's old town – this lively event will take place again this year. Start is at 3pm.

The 2005 IIHF World Championship will take place in Vienna and Innsbruck from April 30 to May 15. 16 national teams, their officials and enthusiastic supporters will come to Austria to celebrate a first-class ice hockey event – the 2005 IIHF World Championship!

On February 12 you can wish your friends and relatives a Happy Chinese New Year. On this day the Chinese celebrate the start of their New Year. Would you like to celebrate with them? You are very welcome in the Nieuwmarkt quarter, the Amsterdam Chinatown. Come and enjoy the fireworks, without which it is quite impossible to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and the traditional Lion Dance.

Vienna’s Old Town is transformed into a giant party arena on 31 December. Top-class entertainment is guaranteed along the route of the New Year’s Eve trail which winds its way through the narrow streets, and is lined by over 80 different catering stands and a dozen music stages.

Many poets and writers rhapsodized about the Vienna coffeehouse, all searching for the essence of what has become the most Viennese of all Viennese institutions. With limited success – coffeehouses have acquired a certain mythical quality; in short, they are the stuff legends are made of.

The Stiftskirche Mondsee, in the Salzkammergut region near Salzburg, will present a dozen candlelight concerts from June through August, 2004. The church, where Maria and Captain von Trapp were married in The Sound of Music, will be illuminated by 300 candles during each performance by a string ensemble. Music will include works by Mozart and other classical composers.