Activities, things to do Ski resort Flachau, Austria

Active tourism is a temporary travel and stay, which is the main motive for recreation, outside his residence. Because of the need to participate in physical activities, visits and desires for watching various sporting events or any active or passive involvement in sporting activities on a personal level or the organized tourist destination for tourists prepare a variety of sports and recreational offerings. Thus, the capacity of accommodations are sports fields, gyms, fitness gym and other sports and recreational facilities are increasingly under the control of professional trainers. For lovers of active tourism prepared various adventure specialties such as rafting, kayaking, scuba diving, paragliding, climbing the cliffs of mountains, diving the depths of the sea, the wild nature cycling, caving, air tourism and other ordinary and unusual sports. The nature of man's movement, and accelerated pace of life, stress and more sitting and not moving during the work, on vacation people make up sport.

Flachau, where ski legend Hermann Maier learned how to become a world champion, is connected by the ski area with Wagrain and Alpendorf. Together, they form the ski area Snow Space Salzburg, which received several international awards („Best ski area in the Alps“ - International Skiareatest 2016/17).

Flachau has also been a venue of the Alpine World Cup for years - the Ladies' World Cup slalom 'Ladies Ski Night' is the event highlight in January.

Snow Space Salzburg is a popular training centre for international World Cup skiers and a well-known meeting place for the world stars from sports, politics and culture.

Together with the ski resorts of Wagrein, St. Johann-Alpendorf, Radstadt / Altenmarkt, Zauchensee-Flachauwinkl, Flachauwinkl-Kleinarl, Eben, Filzmoos and Goldegg, it forms the ski region Salzburger Sportwelt, one of five ski regions of Ski Amadé, Austria`s biggest ski alliance.

120 km of perfectly groomed slopes, state-of-the-art snowmaking technology and 45 modern lifts guarantee a varied skiing pleasure.

Directly from Flachau the ski lifts lead to one of the highlights of the ski area - the 3 km-long 'Hermann Maier World...