Centers of the cities provide options for historical sightseeing. You can visit many museums and historic buildings. You could easily spend a number of days just touring around the town, so be sure to schedule a few days just to visit the center of the interesting city. Once you have satisfied your cultural and historic bent, you may want to loosen up with some nightlife. The city has many shops, both large and small to satisfy your shopping urge.
An increasing number of tourists are now looking at the option of city center apartments for their stay. These apartments proffer a variety of locations to suit the needs of different people. These are ideally suited for people wanting to have a quiet break away from city routine humdrum.
Apart from this, apartments also go easy on the pocket are therefore preferred by majority. A long stay in a hotel would undoubtedly be quite expensive while the same in an apartment would be much cheaper. People also like the exclusivity provided by these apartments. Different rental apartment choices are available to suit individual tastes. These options range from small one room ones to swanky ones fully loaded with top-notch facilities.
Visits to Austria mostly include trips to Vienna with its Cathedral, its "Heurigenschenken" (wine pubs) and romantic Waltz music flair. Worth a visit are Salzburg, birthplace of Mozart, Innsbruck, capital of Tyrol surrounded by the Alps, and the Danube valley with its vineyards, for example the Wachau or Dunkelsteinerwald, which are between Melk and Krems. In the western part of the country the province Vorarlberg reaches the Lake Constance, in the eastern part Neusiedler See.
Of great touristic importance are the Austrian skiing, hiking and mountaineering resorts in the Alps as well as family-friendly recreation areas (e.g. the Witches's Water in Tyrol). The same applies to the numerous Austrian lakes (e.g. Wolfgangsee and other lakes in the Salzkammergut east of Salzburg or Wörthersee in Carinthia).
For visitors interested in Media Art, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz is an absolute must. Since 1979 this center has organized the Ars Electronica Festival and presented the Prix Ars Electronica, the worldwide highest-ranked prize for media art.