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Hotels want sunday shopping in Vienna
The Austrian Hotel Association called for liberalisation of the law on shopping in a November 13 press release. The organisation wants the ban on Sunday shopping ended and claims that the change would result in more tourists coming to the country.
It wants the four Sundays in Advent to be used as a test of its assertion, to be followed by another test on four "tourist-intensive" weekends in 2007. Association President Peter Peer said that a study conducted last June showed that Sunday shopping would increase overnight stays in Vienna by 300,000 and annual turnover in the city by EUR 26.5 million.
by Jim Glenn: newsroom@cen.at
austriantimes.at
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