Tourist BoardInformation

The entire Tux-Finkenberg Tou-rist Board team are always on hand to provide helpful advice and assistance to valley visitors. From looking for accommoda-tion to holiday planning or lei-sure activities, the whole team at the Tux-Finkenberg Tourist Board Information Offices are more than happy to help.

Infobüro Tux-CenterLanersbach 401, 6293 Tux

Infobüro FinkenbergDorf 140, 6292 Finkenberg

Tel.: +43 (0)5287/8506Fax: +43 (0)5287/8508info@tux.at | www.tux.at

Celebrate in the Tux ValleyWhere else, if not at one of the 30 ski huts in the Tux Valley, does traditional Kaiserschmar-ren taste best? Enjoy the ma-gnificent mountain panorama in a comfortable deck chair on the terrace, whilst pampe-ring your palate at the same time! From rustic to stylish, everyone will find just what they are looking for here. And after the thrills of the slopes, the après-ski time and party clubs are the place to celebrate until late! Tux-Center also pro-vides a wide-ranging events programme. The “Nightliner” ferries all party owls safe and sound between Hintertux and Finkenberg through the night.

T he distinctive Olperer Peak at Hintertux Glacier makes Tux a very special

high alpine valley. The optimal altitude of 850 to 3,250 m gua-rantees snow one hundred per-cent from October through to May! Treat yourself to a break and fill you boots with pure win-ter happiness!

GLACIER WORLD. Hintertux Glacier is one of the world‘s lea-ding glacier ski resorts and has received many awards. Winter sports lovers can look forward to perfectly groomed powder slopes, state of the art cable car systems and excellent cuisine. The proverbial high point is the breathtaking view from the Pa-norama Terrace (3,250 m) of the surrounding three thousand

metre peaks and the magnifi-cent Olperer summit.

PISTE DIVERSITY Ski & Gla-cier World Zillertal 3000 is a ski

region of superlatives. You can explore over two hundred kilo-metres of varied slopes in five ski areas with just one ski pass. The Fun-slope and the Kidsslope

Hintertux, with their specially developed elements, focus on skiing fun for young and old at Sommerberg.

WINTER MOUNTAINS-CAPES. The Tux-Finkenberg holiday region has so much more to offer: this includes 28 km of groomed cross-country ski trails and a natural ice-ska-ting rink with curling lanes. Three floodlit natural toboggan runs with quaint eateries add an extra dash of sociable fun to your holiday. Feel the energy of the fresh, clear winter air duri-ng a leisurely walk through the snow-covered landscapes, di-stancing yourself from the dai-ly grind with every single step - this too is winter happiness in Tux-Finkenberg. ❚

Winter-Mountainscapes

Welcome to Tux-Finkenberg

White peaks and alpine adventures – Tux-Finkenberg is home to unadulterated winter fun

Look forward

to winter!

This top ski region Ski and Glacier World Zillertal 3000 makes Tux and Finkenberg one of the leading winter sport regions of the Alps.

Chairman Markus Tipotsch, Msc, Tux-Finkenberg Tourist Board

Yours sincerely

Contents

2 New gondolas to Tuxer Fernerhaus

3 Alexa, what‘s on in Tux?

4 Hubert and Franz – two members of the field staff

5 Happy families in the Tux Valley

6 A special week for very special guests

7 Our concert highlights

8 Overview of Events and Guest Tributes

Dear Guests of the Tux Valley!

After a wonderful summer in the Tux Mountains with lots of sunshine and pleasant tempe-ratures for hiking and biking, the holiday domicile of Tux-Finkenberg is ready again for the coming winter. We have some new features for you to make your holiday in the Tux Valley even more comfortable and relaxing: at the Hintertux Glacier, Gletscherbus 2 has been equipped with new, mo-

dern and extremely comforta-ble gondolas. What remains is the one hundred per cent snow guarantee and a wide range of sporting, social, culinary and cultural activities in the Tux Valley. The exceptional lengths our accommodation providers go to, to provide you, dear regu-lar guests, with a memorable holiday, will be celebrated in style again next year during the ninth Tux-Finkenberg Regular Guest Week. I am already looking forward to meeting old friends and ma-king new acquaintances. In the meantime, I wish you a wonder-ful winter season in the Tux-Finkenberg holiday region. ❚

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Floodlit toboggan runs

Three natural toboggan runs dotted with cosy cabins make for a change here in the Tux valley, bringing a fun and social element to your holi-day. The most beautiful – all 3 lanes are floodlit in the evening; Bichlalm in Hin-tertux at 1,695 m, this 3 km toboggan run leads into the valley. The toboggan run at Grieralm in Juns at 1,787 m is around 5 km long and the Höllensteinhütte in Tux-Lanersbach at 1,740 m with a 4 km run of tobogganing pleasure. A traditionally run cosy mountain hut for hikers and tobogganers alike. Access is also possible with our spe-cial toboggan taxi service.

Winter Wellness

Escape from the hustle and bustle, find your inner peace with moments of reflection immersed in nature – here in the holiday homeland of Tux-Finkenberg. A walk through the virgin, deep snowy winter landscape of the Tux valley is so much more than just trud-ging through the snow – it is winter wellness at its very best. Re-charge your batteries on any of the winter hiking trails, all 68 km of them cle-ared and marked around Tux and Finkenberg. Enjoy the tranquillity of nature with only the sound of crunching snow underfoot - easing body, mind and soul, step by step.

S pring and summer are very busy times for em-ployees of the Zillerta-

ler Gletscherbahn glacier cable car. In addition to inspection work on the facilities, there are always technical innovations and quality improvements to be made. Martin Steinlechner, operations manager at the Hin-tertux glacier, offers an insight of the work.

NEW GONDOLAS. Glet-scherbus 2 has ferried about 30 millions of guests to Tuxer Fer-nerhaus over the past 23 years. After almost 75,000 operating hours, the old cabins have now been replaced by the latest ge-neration of gondolas. “When ca-bins are replaced, the cable car is normally shut down for the work to be carried out,“ explains Martin Steinlechner. Gletscher-bus 2, however, is one of the most important installation on the Hintertux Glacier. For this reason, the cabins could only be replaced during ongoing opera-tions. Such an undertaking is unprecedented in Austria. „We worked very closely with the

New gondolas toTuxer Fernerhaus

of 30 tons per cable. Then the six strands of the cable were untwi-sted over a length of 58 metres, cut to different lengths and then twisted back together again,“ says Martin. After stringent checks and tests, the system was then put back into operation. ❚

Operations manager, Martin Steinlechner, reports on replacing gondolas on the

Gletscherbus 2 cable car and changing cables one level higher, on Gletscherbus 3.

monstrates: length: 7,600 me-tres, diameter 48 mm, weight: 66 tons. The real challenge was to deliver this cable to its rightful destination, i.e. to the pulleys of the world’s highest bicable gondola lift. The special transporter required to bring the cable to the valley terminal of the glacier lifts Gletscher-bahn was too heavy for the thir-teen-kilometre journey to the Tuxer Fernerhaus, at an altitude of 2,660 meters. „So we divided the cable into two trucks, both connected by a drawbar shaft. A third truck provided support in difficult passages,“ reports Martin Steinlechner. The entire convoy weighed 138 tons. The new cable was connected to the old one, in order to hoist it over cableway support pulleys. „This was a very delicate process and took about one and a half days. The cable must not twist or touch the ground, „explains Martin. Then the splicers went to work. This team of specialists connected the two rope ends in a very complex and manual procedure. „The cable is pulled together with a tensioning force

Austrian ropeway authority and tested each of the 34 new cabins for hours in trial operations,“ explains Martin. What happe-ned to the old cabins? They were sold. Twelve cabins are now in use in Andorra on a similar sys-tem. The remaining cabins were purchased by cable car enthusi-asts and are now used, amongst other things, as a washroom on a camping site or as a gondola bar at a lido.Not all work on cable car sys-tems is as obvious as changing the gondolas on Gletscherbus 2. However, they serve for the sa-fety and comfort of passengers. With this in mind, the ball-bea-rings of three deflection pulleys were replaced one level higher at the mountain terminal of Gletscherbus 3, at a height of 3,250 metres. Not an easy task: a deflection pulley has a diame-ter of around four metres and weighs about five tons.

NEW CABLE. Cable replace-ment was also on the agenda for Gletscherbus 3. A difficult undertaking, as a glance at the technical data of the cable de-

Martin Steinlechner has been operations manager at the Zillerta-ler Gletscherbahn glacier lifts since 2013 and is an avid cable car fan. „After Mama, the second word I ever said was gondola,“ laughs the 28 year old. He graduated from HTL technical school for mechanical en-gineering and was one of the youn-gest ropeway operations manager in Austria.

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Family Specialists

The Tux family specialists are particularly adept at fulfilling the needs of fami-lies with children. These hotels offer the luxury of little skiers being collected in the free children’s taxi service. At one of the 5 ski schools skiing instructors of-fer skiing and snowboarding lessons in several languages. With skiing lessons in age and ability related classes, using appropriate learning aids such as children’s ca-rousels, even young skiers will have mastered the basics in no time at all.

Ice Skating and Curling

Fun a plenty here at the over-sized natural ice rink of Tux-Lanersbach! Whate-ver your preference, taking the plunge with skates on, or enjoying your children’s endeavours from the edge – fun is guaranteed!Fun and games curling provides a couple of hours distraction away from the slopes. Four ice rinks in Tux-Lanersbach provide en-tertainment and plenty of action on offer with “Daube & Stock” long-range shoo-ting and target practice.A tip: Warm up with a shot of local schnapps! There are any number of ways to expe-rience the joy of ice-skating or curling – day or night, alone, in pairs, in a group or with your whole family – take your pick!

Alexa, what‘s on in Tux?Alexa reports about interesting and new things from Tux-Finkenberg with Skill-Tirol.

A lexa, what is the weather like in Tux right now? Ale-

xa, which ski slopes on the Hin-tertux Glacier are particularly recommendable? Alexa, where are the best après-ski bars in Fin-kenberg? Alex has been keeping people up to date about the Tux Valley since August 2019. The talking assistant thus provides news and facts from Tux-Finkenberg.

TALK INSTEAD OF TYPE - is the motto of the new talking assistants from Amazon and Co. In order for Alexa to know her way around the Tux Valley, the team from the Tux-Finken-berg Tourist Board has prepa-red lots of relevant informa-tion for Alexa in an elaborate process. This is supplemented with additional information

from existing data bases, such as opening times or telephone numbers.

SKILL.TIROL. Alexa is speech-operated and replies with ver-bal information - on the move too, as an app on your mobile phone or tablet. If desired, you can also request pictures or vi-deos. This way, you can expe-rience all the wonders of the Tux Valley quickly and easily. The information about Tux-Finkenberg is integrated in the new Skill.Tirol from the Tirole-an Tourist Board Skill.Tirol can be installed free on your own Alexa account and is activa-ted with the simple command of „Alexa, experience Tyrol“. Skills for the talking assistants from Google and Apple are also planned for the near future. ❚

Alexa knows all about the holiday region Tux-Finkenberg. The information made available by talking assistants will be further developed and extended to other platforms.

W iltener Boys Choir is one of the oldest and most

traditional boys’ choirs in the Alps. Their history dates back to the 13th Century, when Em-peror Maximilian I. founded the predecessors of the Vien-na Boys Choir with choirboys from Wilten.

THE SINGERS. Johannes Stecher has been conductor of the Wiltener Boys Choir since 1991. Today, the choir boasts of some 200 singers, who are trained in several groups - from junior choirs and concert choirs to male voices - partly in cooperation with the Tiro-lean Landeskonservatorium (State Music Conservatory). The choir members attend va-rious schools in Innsbruck and the surrounding area and, de-pending on their age, come to Wilten once to three times a week for rehearsals or singing lessons. The youngest choir members are around four to five years old.

10th Wiltener BoysChoir ConcertThe traditional boys‘ choir will return to Tux-Lanersbach on 2nd January 2020.

THEIR REPERTOIRE is con-stantly alternated, as the choir members - as is the case with children‘s choirs - change very quickly and switch from the voice types of soprano or con-tralto, to tenor or bass. The choir perform a lot of ancient sacred music, ranging from the

Renaissance to the Baroque pe-riod, to classical and romantic. As a Tyrolean choir, they also feel naturally obliged to bow to the tradition of authentic folk songs. So yodelling and folk songs from the Alpine region as well as spiritual folk songs - especially at Advent and Christ-

mas time - are often found in their choral programmes. Ope-ra and choral symphonic works also occupy a prominent positi-on in their repertoire. The Wil-tener choirboys have also perfor-med several times at the Tiroler and Vorarlberger Landestheater, in various Italian opera houses, at the Salzburg, Bregenz and Ti-rolean Festivals.

TOURS. The choir performs concerts mainly in the German-speaking area. Extensive con-cert tours are also organised all over the world. Some of these tours have taken the young sin-gers several times to China, Ja-pan, Israel, Romania, Denmark, France, Italy, Belgium, Swit-zerland and the Netherlands. The Christmas and New Year‘s concerts in Tux-Finkenberg are also part of their annual fixtures. The 10th anniversary concert will take place on 2nd January 2020 in the Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach. ❚ www.saengerknaben.com

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and curling lanes in Tux-Laners-bach. As the onset of winter begins, the first big challenge is to build up a good layer of ice. In or-der to obtain a robust ice surface, the snow is first compressed and then sprayed with water at regu-lar intervals. „This takes about a week and is a science of its own,“ says Franz. They are also responsi-ble for renting out the ice skates and serving drinks. In the eve-ning, the ice rink is cleaned and sprayed with water again, so it can be used again the next day. These Tourist Board “field staff” also help in the background at va-rious events and ski shows.

PREPARATIONS. If everything goes to plan? Then prepara-tions commence for the warm season. Around 1,500 benches, plus hundreds of signposts, in-formation boards, fences and gates, which are set up along the hiking trails in the Tux Valley in summer, have to be maintained, repaired and repainted. Are there ever any quieter times? Yes, every so often. And that is when the two skilled car-penters „look for“ their work and get creative. Inspired by nature, these beautiful wooden benches or fountains are crea-ted - for example out of a mysti-cal tree trunk from which water spurts into a fountain trough, which was cut out of a single tree trunk. In winter, when long icicles hang from the trees, these artfully designed fountains and benches are par-ticularly romantic and sought-after places to rest for hikers in the Tux Valley. ❚

The members of the “field staff” of the Tourist Board keep hiking trails accessible, create

cross-country ski tracks, make ice, help where necessary and build artful fountains.

Hubert and Franz – two members of the „field staff“

Ski Tours in the Tux Valley

Unspoilt nature, a comple-te deep snow experience set in a mesmerising winter landscape. The possibilities for beautiful mountain ski tours around the Tux valley are endless. Tux valley moun-tain guides will point out the most beautiful ski tours and give you advice and guidance on your own adventures and inform you on mountain safe-ty. Here are 3 tour tips:

HOHER RIFFLER, 3.231 mVariable and challenging tour ranging from middle to difficult.

TETTENSJOCH, 2.276 mStunning views of the Tux valley and the Zillertal.

GRÜBLSPITZE, 2.395 mClassic climbing tours to one of the most spectacular mountain views in the Tux Alps.

Glacier Tour

With 66 ultramodern lifts and cable cars in 5 ski resorts al-lowing you to explore 202 km of ski slopes – no wonder the Zillertal 3000 Ski and Glacier World is known as a superla-tive ski region.Insiders recommend a ski tour from Penkenjoch-Finkenberg via the Rastkogel ski area to Eggalm. Save the best ‘til last – the Hintertux Glacier! If you manage a whole glacier round you will put 15,000 al-titude meters and 60 downhill km behind you in one day! The snow-covered slopes of Tux-Lanersbach, Tux- Vorder-lanersbach and Hintertux are unadulterated pleasure!

I t is comfortable to sit on the beautiful benches made of solid tree trunks along the

trails in Tux-Finkenberg. Many of these masterpieces are crea-ted by the skilled hands of Hu-bert Bidner and Franz Geisler. Both are members of the field staff team at Tux-Finkenberg Tourist Board - and that is me-ant literally. They tackle whate-ver jobs are necessary. And there is plenty to do: they have their hands especially full in winter, when it comes to clearing winter hiking trails, tracking the cross-country ski trail or clearing the ice rink - with Hubert working mainly in Tux and Franz in Fin-kenberg. “We are maintenance workers,” says Franz modestly. The two achieve so much more, however, with their commitment, their creativity and their talent for improvisation. But they can’t be everywhere at once. „If guests notice something is amiss, they can send us a photo via the Tux app and then we will take care of it,“ Franz is happy to receive eve-ry suggestion. One of their main tasks is looking after the hiking trails in the Tux Valley.

HIKING TRAILS. There is nothing better than hiking through the wintry Tux Valley when there is fresh snow on the ground. Hubert and Franz know that too and immediately get to work to clear the winter hiking trails after fresh snowfall. Not a simple and, above all, no easy task. “First of all, the snow on the hiking trails is compressed with a snowmobile, so peo-ple can walk on them again as

quickly as possible,” explains Hubert. The trails are then groo-med. Working with a snow blow-er is tedious and often requires the additional use of a shovel. It takes some time, however, to clear the 68 kilometre long net-work of winter walking trails. Both workers are out and about every day, checking the trails, keeping everything in order and making slippery sections sa-fer. “We spread sawdust on the snow, which creates an anti-slip surface. We then sweep up all the sawdust again in spring,” ex-plains Hubert. Why do they not use grit? It would warm up and sink into the snow. You would then need to spread new grit every day. If vehicles can’t access the trails, the two men set out with a

wheelbarrow and shovel, to en-sure the trails are safe. They are quite laid back about the fact that their efforts are often in vain, especially when their work is buried in new snow the very next day. “That is how it is in the Tux Valley We often experience huge dumps of new snow.

CROSS COUNTRY SKI TRAIL AND ICE-SKATING RINK. Hu-bert and Franz also work regular-ly on the Luggi-Gredler-Trail. The 14 km classic cross-country trail and 14 km skating trail between Tux-Vorderlanersbach and Hin-tertux are checked and groomed daily. „We track the trails in the morning, before even the first cross-country skiers are out and about,“ explains Hubert They also look after the ice rink

Franz Geisler, Hubert Bidner and the team of the Tourist Board “field staff” ensure that everything is kept up and running in Tux-Finkenberg.

„TUX 1280“ is the name of the Craft Beer from the Tuxer Craft Beer Brewery, the highest in Austria by the way. Neil Vousden and Timothy Jones have been brewing five extraordinary Craft Beer varieties from the finest ingredients combined with Tux glacier water ever since 2016. “TUX 1280 BLUE is an India Pale Ale. The light brown ale is a refreshing ex-perience, as well as the continuation

of a 150-year-old beer tradition at the same time,“ Tim reveals. Tux Pale Ale owes its characteristic citrus aroma to the combination of the hop varieties of Amarillo, Apollo, Citra and Centennial. The abundance of hops gives this craft beer its very fresh bitterness. Every sip delights beer connoisseurs with a hitherto unknown variety of flavours. The exciting mix of aromas, its fruity citrus scent and the bitter finish make

the Tux Pale Ale a unique pleasure for every beer lover.

BEST FOOD PAIRING OPTIONS: Full flavoured foods harmonise well with TUX 1280 BLUE, as well as mature cheeses, Penne Arrabiata or bitter leaf salads. It is also an ideal accompani-ment to cannelloni, steaks, venison ragout and curries. www.tux1280.at

Tim‘s Craft Beer Tip: TUX 1280 BLUE

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O n your marks, get set, go! Children love win-ter holidays in the Tux

Valley. The extensive leisure pro-gramme in Tux and Finkenberg promises lots of action, fun and excitement.

CHILDREN’S FAVOURITE PLACES. All beginners can make their first playful attemp-ts on skis at the new Pepi’s Kinderland at Penkenjoch. The professionally supervised Pepis Kinderklub at Granatalm with climbing wall, hockey table, soft Lego and playground per-fectly complement the range of children’s activities offered. Eggalm children‘s park with ski carousel, magic carpet, baby lift and snow tubing of-fers oodles of fun in the snow. “Luis” the glacier flea also keeps young ones entertained on the Kids-Funslope and Funs-lope in Hintertux.

SKI SCHOOLS. It is easy to get started when it comes to skiing. The well-trained ski instructors of the five children‘s ski schools in Tux and Finkenberg make sure of that. They know what children love and offer suitable ski and snowboard courses for all age groups and learning levels. And

Happy families in the Tux ValleySkiing, tobogganing, ice skating, snowball fights, building snowmen -

winter is the perfect time for fabulous family holidays in Tux-Finkenberg.

mums and dads are also very well looked after by the ski schools of Tux-Finkenberg, whatever their ability level may be.

SNOWBALL FIGHT. What else can children look forward to during their winter holidays in Tux-Finkenberg? Well how about a proper snowball fight? After all, there is a one hundred percent snow guarantee all year round in the Tux Valley. So when is the perfect time to visit? Almost always. Shape the snow into a small ball and off

you go. As these balls get big, bigger and even bigger, you can make a snowman out of them.

CHILDREN’S FESTIVALS. The children’s festivals are always a source of great fun. Whether pre-New Year‘s Eve party, the children‘s Easter party at the ice rink in Tux-La-nersbach or the big children‘s Easter party in the Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach. There is always something for families to do in Tux-Finken-berg, all winter long. ❚

This is Tux-Finkenberg:# Free sports bus# Nightliner Euro 2.00# Three toboggan runs# 202 km of slopes - 615 hectares skiing area# 66 lifts and cable car systems, Lift conveyance capacity of 123,645 pers/h# Powder snow from October to May# 100% snow guarantee all year round# ski operations 365 days of the year

Pre-New Year’s Party for ChildrenA real highlight for the young-er guests of the Tux valley is the ever popular Pre-New Year’s par-ty. All children are invited to wave goodbye to the old year at the ice skating rink in Tux-Lanersbach on Monday, 30th December 2019 from 1pm onwards. Great atmos-phere, free drinks and free entrance to the ice rink!

T he Play arena Tux family speci-alists have created a first-class

indoor playground of some 1,000 m² – a fantastic attraction for our smaller guests to the Tux valley. A major Highlight of the Play arena is the age-appropriate professio-nal and extensive baby and child care team – allowing parents to thoroughly enjoy a relaxing win-ter holiday. Hotspots include the huge soft play area, trampoline park, bouncy castle, climbing wall, high-ropes course, go-kart track, ci-nema and children’s theatre. Tiny tots through to teens up to 16 ye-ars old are all well catered for with the age-relevant great adventure and animation programme. Every Saturday the fun and games mec-ca is open to all Tux and Finken-berg guests. ❚

Fun and Games in the Play arenaAn outstanding outdoor playpark of some 1,000 m² with childcare.

Bear Route

It only takes 8 minutes from Tux-Lanersbach to reach the mountain station Eggalm-bahnen. Here guests will find 21 km of ski and valley runs. Fun for all the family can be found on the Bear route from Eggalm to Tux-Lanersbach – a great experience for all ages.

Betterpark

Betterpark Hintertux is one of the highest freestyle-spots in Austria and is consi-dered by many to be the best Snowpark in the Alps. The entrance to the park is at 3,200 metres above sea-level at the foot of the majestic Ol-perer Mountain. The Better-park Hintertux is open from April to end of May and from mid-September to Decem-ber. In autumn, it is the first Snowpark in Austria to open.

Funslope und Kidsslope

The new Funslope in Sommer-bergalm at 2,100 m altitude is a real hit with the whole fa-mily. A gigantic snow feature in the shape of a horizontal figure of eight boasting nu-merous snow waves with exci-ting elements provides heaps of fun and entertainment on the slopes. Luis, the glacier flea, invites even the youngest boarders on a voyage of dis-covery off the beaten track at Kidsslope Hintertux.

www.playarena.at

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Ski Show

The ski and snowboard ex-perts of the Tux and the Finkenberg ski schools are masters in their field. Show-casing their acrobatic fi-nesse with the backdrop of fireworks, hot music and spectacular lighting effects – visitors are glued to the spectacle. The snow sports specialists will show you everything that is possible on skis and snowboards, from breath-taking jumps and perfect formations to show-stopping tricks. And all laced with plenty of humour and fun. Entrance is free, the Nightliner bus serves the en-tire Tux Valley making access quick and easy. The Ski Show, performed in the Arena Hin-teranger in Tux-Lanersbach, is a highlight surely not to be missed. Show dates are from January 2020 with a start time of 9.15pm.

Après-Ski

Relax, unwind and let the rays of sunlight soothe your skin. Favoured meeting points are the plentiful ski huts, mountain eateries and chill-out zones for a cosy pit-stop. They all warrant their titles of “quaint & authentic” or “stylish & trendy”. On the heels of fun and frolics on the powdery slopes, hip Après-Ski venues tempt you to the valley. Cool drinks and hot Après-Ski beats make for plenty of flirty fun – winter vibe? It’s a slam dunk!

The Tux-Finkenberg Regular Guest Week will take place for the ninth time next year. What does the regular guest week mean for the Tux-Finkenberg region and what makes it so special?Markus Tipotsch: This week is always a very special one. The Regular Guest Week has been a fixture in Tux-Finkenberg for de-cades and has developed into an extraordinary event over the ye-ars. It is a time when the focus is placed on not only the sum-merly Tux Valley. Throughout the week, cherished regular guests and dedicated hosts cele-brate their years and decades of friendship.

The highlight for the guests is the big gala evening in the spe-cially erected marquee. What makes this evening so special? Markus Tipotsch: It is the com-munity spirit we share with our guests, with whom the evening is celebrated. The atmosphere in the festively decorated marquee is unique every time anew. The entire holiday community of the valley literally sits together at one table on this evening, which is what makes it so special. In the marquee, you always meet good old acquaintances, make new friends and celebrate the unique and long-standing rela-tionship between regular guests and hosts in a companionable at-

mosphere. It is much more than a thank-you; it is a warm and of-ten very emotional expression of the deep friendship and mutual respect that unites all visitors in the marquee.

What points on the pro-gramme do the regular guests enjoy most during this week?Markus Tipotsch: There are many of them, but especially tho-se that focus on the things they have in common. I am particu-larly looking forward to the “Star Hike” to Penkenjoch, followed by holy mass on the mountain. This year it is again one of the great highlights of the Regular Guest Week and, like the traditional gala evening, living proof of the deep friendship between the peo-ple in the region and their guests.

How important is it that every-one in Tux Valley gets involved in the Regular Guest Week?Markus Tipotsch: For the peo-ple in the Tux Valley, the Regu-lar Guest Week is truly dear to their hearts. From holiday hosts to clubs and associations in the valley, as well as countless hono-rary helpers, everyone is actively involved in organising and im-plementing the festival. The way everyone helps together is incredible, and worth its weight in gold. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart.

Markus Tipotsch, chairman of Tux-Finkenberg Tourist Board,

offers a preview of next year’s highlight: Regular Guest Week 2020

ship between guests and their hosts and thus a valuable asset that we take care of and nur-ture. It is a great concern for us to say thank you to our loyal guests in this manner. Every four years, the Regular Guest Week gives us the opportunity to celebrate the special rela-tionship of the region and its people with our guests. ❚

A special week for very special guests

What does the Regular Guest Week mean to you?Markus Tipotsch: As host for the Tux Valley as a whole, I am really looking forward to this week, because it celebrates the special relationship of the people in the valley with their guests every four years. The Regular Guest Week is the ma-nifestation of the deep friend-

Markus Tipotsch is the host for the entire Tux Valley during the Regular Guest Week 2020.

Regular Guest Week 2020Tux-Finkenberg invites its loyal guests from 27th June to 5th July 2020.

T he Regular Guest Week demonstrates the close re-

lationship between hosts and their guests. Around 1,500 vi-sitors are expected at the ninth Tux-Finkenberg Regular Guest Week. The programme promises plenty of variety. Traditional ac-tivities such as the “Star Walk” on Penkenjoch, the Alpine Hike to Eggalm and “Fascinating Glaciers“ are accompanied by a

number of innovations. The so-cial highlight of the festivities will be the Gala Evening with awards ceremony. The holiday hosts of the Tux Valley are loo-king forward to welcoming their guests and friends and to celebrate together with them. So don’t forget to put the dates for the Regular Guest Week from 27th June to 5th July 2020 in your diary now! ❚

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Snowshoeing – the perfect harmony of sport with na-ture. Experienced mountain guides will take you to the most breath-taking beauty spots the holiday region of Tux-Finkenberg has to offer – with no prior knowledge of the sport required. Tours are available in all levels of diffi-culty affording everyone the joy of this unique experience. Equipment can of course be hired in the local sports shops of Tux-Finkenberg.

Snow Hiking

In the holiday region of Tux-Finkenberg there are 68 km of winter hiking trails - some flattened, some cleared and gritted allowing variety! The winter hiking trails to the Eggalm or the Sommerberg are a particular challenge – but rewarded with a superb view of the encompassing mountains. For those who prefer a less energetic route you can take the cable cars up to each particular moun-tain station. Either way, rustic alpine huts provide Zillertal specialities for you to enjoy in their generously sized panoramic restaurants.

Our concert highlightsThe Tux-Finkenberg event calendar is packed to the brim once more. Musical

highlights this winter include the summit tour by DJ Ötzi, the event with

Stockanotti , the “Höhner” concert at the glacier and of course „Hot Chocolate.“

STOCKANOTTI UND HOT CHOCOLATE. No one knows how to party like him: 5-star ho-telier Daniel Stock from Finken-berg, alias Stockanotti, is dyna-mism personified - and breaks all rules and roles to make the dance floors smoulder! Stocka-notti landed a chart-topping summer hit in 2019 with “I love Mama.“ We can thank the le-

DJ ÖTZI SUMMIT TOUR 2020.The DJ Ötzi Summit Tour 2020 will stop by in Tux on 26th Mar-ch. Gerry Friedle alias DJ Ötzi has been appearing on stage for over 20 years. DJ Ötzi is now returning to his roots with his summit tour. Back then, over 20 years ago, he got everyone dan-cing in the ski huts. During his

DIE HÖHNER. There is always a fantastic party mood when “Die Höhner“ hit the stage. The Hintertux Glacier Open Air with Cologne’s top band, „Die Höhner“ at 2,100 m above sea level in the Sommerberg Are-na is the undisputed highlight

of the Kölsche (Cologne) Week from 28.03. to 04.04.2020.

Die Höhner – Open AirFr., 03.04.2020Hintertux Glacier, Sommerberg Arena

summit tour 2020 Gerry Friedle alias DJ Ötzi will be back spin-ning the turntables, demonstra-ting his qualities as entertainer, singer and DJ all over again.

DJ Ötzi Summit Tour 2020Thu., 26.03.2020at Tux

gendary British funk and soul band „Hot Chocolate” for iconic hits such as „You Sexy Thing“ or „Every 1’s a Winner“. They set the tone with their hot rhythms - party, dance and sing along.

Stockanotti and Hot ChocolateThu., 13.02.2020at Finkenberg

U ntil the beginning of the 20th century, the paths

„into Tux“ were undeveloped and thus „adventurous“ - pro-bably because while places in the valley were being “moderni-sed” elsewhere, these trails were left untouched until around 1950. This meant that Erika Hu-batschek was able to take photos of a time that now seems so very distant. Almost like another world! The book, „Das alte Tux“ (The Old Tux)“ with its appro-ximately 200 black-and-white pictures and short texts by con-temporary witnesses brings that era back to life. Away from the nostalgia, these photos tell of the life of the miners: of a labo-

rious and often hard existence, through which the landscape of the Tux Valley with all its beauty, as we appreciate it today, could first emerge. The illustrated book „Das alte Tux“ by Erika and Irmtraud Hu-batschek will be published in December 2019, as a Hubatschek Edition.The photo exhibition „Women from Tux and Women in the Himalayas“ will be on show at Mehlerhaus in Madseit until 17th April, 2020. Irmtraud Hu-batschek juxtaposes women‘s portraits from the Himalayas (1984 to 2016) with photographs of her mother Erika from the Tux Valley in the 1950s. ❚

New illustrated book: “Das alte Tux“The new book by Erika and Irmtraud Hubatschek will be published in December 2019.

A large part of Erika Hubatschek‘s photogra-phic work was taken in the Tux Valley. She “got stran-ded” in Tux in 1942, whilst carrying out field studies on folklore.

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Winter Programme 2019/20

October 201903.-06.10. Hotzone.tv Park Opening at Hintertux Glacier12.-13.10. Powder Weekend at Hintertux Glacier

November 201916.11. Après Ski Party until 18.30 hrs at Sommerberg Arena28.11. Christmas in Zillertal with Marc Pircher and friends in Finkenberg28.11.-01.12. Freeheeler European Opening30.11. Advent in Finkenberg

December 201901.12. Tux Advent at Dorfplatz in Tux-Lanersbach05.12. The “Krampuss” devils roam through the Tux Valley12.12. Mountain Advent in the Tux Valley at Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach20.12. Schwindelfrei presents: Norisha – Spul, Jazz and Gospel30.12. Pre-New Year’s Eve party for children at the ice rink in Tux-Lanersbach30.12. Pre New Year’s Eve Torch Lit Walk in Finkenberg

January 2020 02.01. Christmas and New Year’s Concert by the Wiltener Boys Choir at Tux-Lanersbach

February 202005.02. Luis from South Tyrol at Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach13.02. Classical piano recital by Dr. Sonya Suhnhee Kim at the Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach13.02. Event with Stockanotti and Hot Chocolate at Finkenberg25.02. Children’s Carnival Party at Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach

March 202014.03. „Tricky Nicky“ at Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach26.03. DJ Ötzi - Summit Tour Concert21.-28.03. Düsseldorf Week in Hintertux28.03.-04.04. Kölsche Winter Week in Hintertux

April 202003.04. Hintertux Glacier Open Air with Cologne’s top band, „Die Höhner“ at 2,100 m above sea level in the Sommerberg Arena.07.04. Children‘s Easter Party at Tux-Center in Tux-Lanersbach13.-19.04. Kölsche Easter Days in Hintertux25.-26.04. Välley Rälley at the Hintertux Glacier

Extras im Winter 2019/20daily Après-Ski-Party with live music in the bars of Tux and Finkenbergfrom January Ski show by the ski schools of Tux at the Arena Hinteranger in Tux-Lanersbach, at 21:15 hrs respectively

Detailed winter programme: www.tux.at and www.tux-center.at

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T hree special anniversaries were celebrated in the Tux

Valley in the summer of 2019. Joy Henzler and Marco Geiger spent their 120th holiday at Ho-tel Alpenhof in Tux. Many thanks

also go to the Karin and Johann Widermann family. They enjoyed their 70th stay at the Bergkristall B&B in Tux. The host family from Landhaus Eder in Finkenberg congratulated Mrs. Ramona and

her brother Dominik Hähnel for their 20th and 10th stay respec-tively at their holiday domicile. The entire region thanks the ju-bilees, as well as all other regular guests. ❚

F or a relaxing, laid back jour-ney to the Tux valley you can

leave the car at home. There are numerous speedy travel options from our public transport net-work, with the final stage in an enchantment class of its’ own; the “Zillertalbahn” is counted as one of the world’s most famous narrow-gauge railways. This ser-vice gives you direct access to national and international long-distance trains from Jenbach station, found at the entrance to the Zillertal valley. Additionally, Innsbruck airport is within easy

reach of the Zillertal with daily scheduled flights throughout Europe. The convenient airport transfer brings guests comfortab-ly to their accommodation. Thus light work is made of journeys from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frank-furt or Vienna. The Tux Valley is also easily accessible for our guests from both Munich and Salzburg airports. Your car will be superfluous here – the exten-sive ski-bus network brings you quickly and comfortably to your destination with the bonus of very short waiting times! ❚

Convenient travel to the Tux ValleyTux-Finkenberg is within easy reach by train.

F or loved ones, good friends or just to re-ward yourself. Gift vouchers from Tux-

Finkenberg holiday domicile are the perfect present - either as a souvenir or holiday sur-prise. The vouchers can be redeemed in the entire valley and are available from the Tux-Lanersbach and Finkenberg tourist informati-on offices. Gift vouchers from Tux-Finkenberg allow the bearer to enhance their holidays in the Tux Valley at will, whether in restaurants or hotels, in shops or for a variety of leisure ac-tivities. With all its diversity, this gift is hard to beat. Info: www.tux.at ❚

Gift VouchersA great present for holiday

pleasures in the Tux Valley.

Three special AnniversariesLoyal regular guests honoured again

120 times in the Tux Valley: Henzler and Marco Geiger

70 times in the Tux Valley: Karin and Johann Widermann

20 and 10 times in the Tux Valley: Ramona and Dominik Hähnel

Summer Preview27.06.-05.07.2020

9. Regular Guest Week in the Tux Valley

IMPRESSUM Herausgeber: Tourismusverband Tux-Finkenberg, Lanersbach 401, A-6293 Tux im Zillertal, www.tux.at | Verleger: Bezirksblätter Tirol GmbH, 6020 Innsbruck, Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 6, Geschäftsführung: Fredy Pfurtscheller, Gunther Sternagl | Redaktion: Karl Künstner | Layout: Bezirksblätter Tirol GmbH | Produktion & Bildbearbeitung: Sarah Pfeifer | Fotos: Tourismusverband Tux-Finkenberg, Zillertal Tourismus, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Maren Krings, Hannes Sautner/shootandstyle.com, Erika Hubatschek, Andreas Wetzel, VOGLperspektive, Stefan J. Wolf, Karl Künstner | Druck: Athesia Tyrolia Druck GmbH| Exlgasse 20, 6020 Innsbruck