Disclosure
Legal notice
Information under § 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz (ECG, Austrian E-Commerce Act) and disclosure under § 25 Mediengesetz (Austrian Media Act).
The German version of this page is legally binding.
- Service provider and media owner
- Tourismusbeschäftigtenfonds (also known as Tourismusfonds or TBF)
- Legal form
- Fund with its own legal personality, set up by the Tourismusbeschäftigtenfondsgesetz (TBFG), BGBl. I Nr. 119/2025
- Address
- Marxergasse 24/2, 1030 Wien, Österreich
- Area of activity
- All of Austria
- Phone
- +43 1 960 94 00
- office@tourismusfonds.at
- Represented by
- The voluntary board (Vorstand) under § 2 TBFG
- Supervisory authority
- Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit, Pflege und Konsumentenschutz (Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection)
What the fund does
The fund supports people who work in tourism or are looking for work in tourism: it helps them to start, secure and stabilise their employment, and it enables sector-specific training and special support (§ 3 TBFG). The benefits are set out in the current Benefit Rules (Leistungsordnung); all documents, application forms and procedures are available on this website in their current version.
Basic editorial policy (Blattlinie)
This website provides information about the tasks and benefits of the Tourismusbeschäftigtenfonds and allows you to submit funding applications online.
Liability and binding nature
The content of this website is prepared with care and updated regularly. Only the TBFG, the current Benefit Rules (Leistungsordnung) and the decision in each individual case are legally binding. There is no legal entitlement to benefits from the fund (§ 3 Abs 3 TBFG).
The fund accepts no responsibility for the content of external websites that this website links to.
Copyright
© Tourismusbeschäftigtenfonds. All rights reserved. Content of this website may not be copied or used in other electronic or printed publications without permission.
Image credits
The illustrations on this website (commercial kitchen, hotel reception, hotel bar and Viennese coffee house) were created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI).