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Austrian hotel bans Jews
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
May 11, 2009 08:24am
A HOTEL in Austria has outraged local tourism and fellow hotel owners by
banning Jewish guests.
The Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus, Tyrol, is
said to have turned away a Jewish family because of "bad experiences" in
the past, the daily Tiroler Tageszeitung reports.
The hotel owner allegedly emailed the family and told them although the
room was free, she did not want to take in Jewish guests.
The Haus Sonnenhof's reaction has angered other hotels in Serfaus, which
has become popular with orthodox Jewish tourists in recent years.
"One such incident could destroy all the hard work by others in the
travel industry," Hotel Alpenruh-Micheluzzi owner Petra Micheluzzi told
the German Press Agency, DPA.
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