All Season Highlights
Exploring
Guest Card Welcome Card: unlimited holiday happiness
Numerous included services, discounts and mobility guarantee - that is the Welcome Card guest card. Available free of charge from two nights at partner establishments, it is the ideal companion for a varied vacation in the Innsbruck region. The highlight of the Welcome Card is the free guided active programme with guided hiking and e-bike tours in summer and guided snowshoe and winter hikes in winter. To experience the wide variety of adventures that the region offers in a comfortable and climate-friendly way, the guest card includes all public transportation in the region.
Sightseeing
Innsbruck Card: maximize your experience
Ambras Castle, Bergisel ski jump and Nordkette: Innsbruck’s highlights can be explored particularly well with the Innsbruck Card. The card can be purchased for 24, 48 or 72 hours and includes admission to 22 sights and museums. And it makes it easy to get around: the city's public transportation, the Hop on – Hop off Bus Sightseer and three hours of bike rental are included. And because every visit to Innsbruck needs a mountain experience, one ride up and down on the two cable cars Nordkettenbahnen and Patscherkofelbahn is also included.
Exploring
Workation in Innsbruck: the island in the midst of the alps
What about enjoying the sunrise at an altitude of 2,000 metres, then holding your first online meeting at 9 a.m.? And after work going to a bike or ski tour? The new dimension of a varied work-life-balance is called: workation. So why not turn your holiday destination into your workplace? The Innsbruck region is exactly the right “office” for workationers, combining the advantages of the city with 40 idyllic places up in the surrounding mountains.
Sustainability | Regionality
Enjoy Innsbruck with a clear conscience
With its unique offer of free use of public transport for guests, climate-neutral hotels, a natural snow skiing area, the cultivation of local cultural traditions and regionality – sustainability has many faces in the Innsbruck region. Numerous initiatives for sustainable business activity, many of which are implemented together with local partners, ensure that the unique variety of the region can be experienced and its alpine-urban joie de vivre can be savoured!
Winter Highlights 2023/24
Exploring
No end of reasons to be outdoors: infinite variety in the Innsbruck region
No more winter blues! In the Innsbruck region, the cold season shows its best side, whether on or off the slopes: from skiing pleasure to leisurely winter hikes and strolls through the snow-covered old town to a warming end to the day in the Zirben sauna. In addition, there are culinary highlights with regional delicacies. This is how winter can be!
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Christmas in the mountains & Lumagica: a dazzling journey through time
Advent in the Innsbruck region is truly a fairytale: the seven unique Christmas markets of Innsbruck’s Christmas in the Mountains let you discover the Yuletide magic with every sense. The Christmas market in Innsbruck's Old Town is an especially festive event that is this year celebrating its 50th anniversary. LUMAGICA Innsbruck also shines with the joy of the occasion: under the motto of “Journey through Time”, this park of lights will delight visitors to the Imperial Gardens this winter with its magnificent light installations and sculptures.
www.innsbruck.info/bergweihnacht
Skiing | Exploring
SKI plus CITY Pass Stubai Innsbruck: skiing fun meets city life
Carving and powdering in the Kühtai ski resort and on the Stubai Glacier? Sightseeing and shopping in the regional capital of Innsbruck? Or chilling out and relaxing in the pool? The SKI plus CITY Pass Stubai Innsbruck means that you don’t have to spend long planning – it’s all included! The pass offers access to no fewer than 13 ski areas, 23 city offers and 2 swimming pools, turning a holiday in and around Innsbruck into a unique experience. Best of all, the ski bus and the Hop on-Hop off Bus Sightseer are of course included too.
Exploring
Innsbruck region – where hiking is at home even in winter
Hiking is not only one of the favorite pastimes of many in summer. In winter, too, mountain lovers are increasingly lacing up their hiking boots for walks through the snow-covered city, gentle hikes through the wintry landscape or more challenging tours through the snow. For those who would like to try hiking in winter in company and in small groups, the winter active programme of the free Welcome Card guest card is recommended. On guided snowshoe and winter hikes, trained guides take winter fans on their tours into the winter wonderland.
Exploring
A whole range of emotions: Innsbruck Winter Dance Festival 2024
Limonada, a company of exceptional dancers under choreographer Enrique Gasa Valga, will this winter bring stunning performances combined with Cuban sounds to the Capital of the Alps. The first edition of the Winter Dance Festival addresses the story of the musical Valdes family from Cuba in its production “Lagrimas Negras”. Romance, melancholy and enchanting music are all on the bill in Innsbruck’s biggest dance production of 2024.
Summer Highlights 2024
Exploring | Sightseeing | Relaxing
Summer, sun, city and mountains: there are countless reasons to be outdoors in the Innsbruck region
One holiday, countless possibilities – that’s what is offered by the unique variety of the Innsbruck region. Nature and culture, enjoyment and activity, city and countryside all merge here into an attractive all-round package. Relaxation or sports? Leisurely or demanding? It’s all possible in and around Innsbruck – for a summer packed with variety and joie de vivre!
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Innsbruck's sportsummer 2024
Local and international athletes – not to mention spectators – can all experience the sporting diversity of the Innsbruck region this summer. In addition to the European Women’s Handball Championship in the city itself and the legendary Xletix Challenge in Kühtai, the Innsbruck Alpine Trailrun Festival and the Golden Roof Challenge count among the absolute sporting highlights of the year. Whether as spectator or as participant, the wide variety of events means plenty of excitement for all concerned.
Exploring
Innsbruck's summer of culture 2024
Theater plays, music festivals and open-air performances: the stage is truly set for the Innsbruck region’s Summer of Culture! With the Innsbruck Promenade Concerts and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival Weeks, not to mention many other outstanding cultural events, top-quality performances are guaranteed, providing special highlights for every taste during Innsbruck’s Summer of Culture!
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So many fun things for families in the Innsbruck region
A whole world opens up for all the family in the Innsbruck region – a world full of activity and fun. Exciting journeys of discovery in Innsbruck usually lead from the city directly into the natural world, providing both young and old with wonderful holiday memories. A stroll through the city against the imposing backdrop of the mountains or a visit to a museum with its interactive displays will turn into a fascinating journey of discovery. Children will get a feeling of wanderlust on the numerous family-friendly hiking trails, while swimmers can cool off in the refreshing waters of one of the region’s wonderful bathing lakes.
Hiking
Discover the alpine-urban diversity of the Innsbruck region on foot and with guide
High mountains, wide plateaus, cool forests, flowering alpine meadows: In the Innsbruck region, you can discover the diverse mountain forms and a varied flora and fauna on enjoyable hikes and more challenging tours – sometimes also with the help of cable cars. For those who like to hike in company and small groups, the summer active programme of the free Welcome Card guest card is highly recommended. From May to October, different areas can be experienced daily on guided hikes with certified mountain guides.
Biking
All the variety of the Innsbruck region on two wheels and with guide
Whether you are a leisure cyclist or opt for a gravity bike, prefer an e-bike or rely purely on muscle power, the Innsbruck region with its biking terrain that ranges from gentle to alpine is “the place to b(ik)e”. Those who like to bike in company and small groups, participate in the summer active programme of the free guest card Welcome Card. For the guided e-bike tours with local guides, it is best to rent top-equipped e-bikes from selected rental partners - at special prices thanks to the Welcome Card.
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About Innsbruck Tourismus
Innsbruck Tourismus is the official destination management organisation of the Innsbruck region which extends from the Tyrolean capital to more than 40 surrounding towns – from the Inn Valley to the Mieming Plateau, and from Kühtai to the Sellraintal valley. With almost 3.5 million overnight stays in 2019, the Innsbruck region is one of the largest tourist attractions in Austria and a unique symbiosis of vibrant urban space and fascinating mountain world. One moment you’re enjoying sightseeing and the buzz of a diverse city, the next you’re off on your next cycling or hiking tour, or your next skiing or winter hiking experience. The free Welcome Card for visitors is the key that unlocks the region’s endless diversity, granting free use of public transport and making it easy to experience all sorts of wonderful highlights in a sustainable way. Innsbruck Tourismus has a staff of some 90 employees, and visitors are the focus of their every thought and action. Inspired by their passion for this alpine-urban space, they share their knowledge and love of the area with visitors so that they can enjoy an unforgettable holiday experience in harmony with people and nature. With a total of 12 information offices, Innsbruck Tourismus is always close at hand, right at the heart of the action and with its finger on the pulse – a hub and focal point for local characters’ authentic stories and personal impressions which can be found on the popular blog and social channels at #myinnsbruck. Further links
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