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THE SPECIALISTS FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

The Trail Angels

The Trail Angels team: we combine many years of experience with youthful dynamism and combine the expertise of specialists from various fields in sustainable tourism: destination managers, travel agency specialists, protected area managers, IT developers, outdoor specialists (including IVBV mountain guides), university lecturers & funding specialists. Unexcited, implementation-oriented, innovative, energetic and courageous to leave well-trodden paths in order to achieve the best results for destinations.

Mag. Günter Mussnig Product development, CEO gmussnig@trail-angels.com

The Trail Guru

The certified geographer is naturally not native to the city. It’s just not his habitat. The mountains and trekking in pristine nature make him feel much more at ease. He is therefore enthusiastic about the vision that man and nature can be reconciled after all. With the help of responsible and sustainable tourism, for example.

A majority of his career was dedicated to working for the Hohe Tauern National Park, the largest national park in the Alps. Firstly, through the management of the protected area and then as the Managing Director for tourism in the region. Then he co-founded Trail Angels, together with his brother Werner and Nathalie. This step enabled him to fulfil his passion, product development for responsible tourism, even more consistently.
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The Booking Queen

Whatever this Travel Executive is all about, she does it with incredible energy, paired with good humor. She started her career from scratch: right after tourism school, she joined the Hohe Tauern National Park to make a name for herself over the years as an energetic implementer, and expert in booking and quality management.

These were the best prerequisites for starting her own business with the Trail Angels. Since then, she has increased her know-how to an international level, whereby she manages to put every sustainable tourism product into the status “Ready for Booking” seemingly effortless. With persistence, consistency, and – we are pleased to repeat – her infectious good humor, also for project partners.
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Nathalie Reichhold MAS Booking & Quality Management, COO nreichhold@trail-angels.com

Univ. Doz. Mag. Dr. Werner Mussnig Change Management & Controlling, CFO wmussnig@trail-angels.com

The Lord of the figures and more

You can tell by the academic titles: the business economist and enthusiastic climber initially pursued a scholarly career at university. He lectured at various universities, set up numerous courses and penned over a dozen specialist books. Nevertheless, he turned his back on academic pursuits, in order to translate his knowledge into practice from then on.

As a management consultant, board member, company founder and most recently a pioneer of sustainable economic models, he has dedicated himself to the development of wooden towers for wind power plants and to sustainable tourism. He co-founded the Trail Angels with his brother Günter and Nathalie Reichhold, where he has more than just an eye for the figures and contributes through his many years of strategic experience.
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The IT Wizard

The computing expert actually wanted to stop programming in this life altogether. After a few exhausting years, he consciously left the hectic world of international finance behind him and ended up in the Mölltal valley via a detour in sports and event management – where he was on a roll with some of the biggest players in tennis and swimming.

Henceforth he lived with and from nature as a sheep farmer and mountain hiking guide. Admittedly, his expertise did not remain hidden for a long time and after two years with the National Park Region, he promptly joined Günter and Nathalie at the Trail Angels. Here, he not only runs the international funded projects with great calmness and sovereignty but has also rediscovered his love for programming. Bookyourtrail® and Trail Manager would not exist without Rudi.
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DI Rudi Trinko MAS Project Management & IT-Solutions rtrinko@trail-angels.com

Bettina Posch
Travel Management Specialist

bposch@trail-angels.com

A Haven of Calm with Energy

Tourism and music are in her blood. Although Bettina is the youngest of the Trail Angels, she already has several years of experience in tourism. And she likes to devote her free time to her second great passion, music. Now Bettina actively strengthens our team in the Trail Info and Booking Center. A multifaceted challenge that she masters with calmness, consistency and a lot of energy.

The enduring fighter

Based in the high alpine heart of the Alpe-Adria-Trail, Selina combines her great passion for hiking and nature with her helpful and energetic nature in our booking center. In this way, she not only provides our guests with the best advice, but also puts the same smile on their faces that she has on her lips – whenever she is on tour in the local mountain landscape.

Not only the “Pferdewirt” has our all angel in Trail Angels Info & Booking Center, but also the training as a restaurant specialist, which provided her expertise and experience in the tourism industry. Besides hiking, which is her magic means to find inner peace, she gets her adrenaline kick from horseback riding and tennis. So Selina not only dances brilliantly from ball to ball on the sports field, but also between the requests of our hiking enthusiasts.
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Selina Löschnig

Travel Management specialist

sloeschnig@trail-angels.com

Julia Gfrerer B.SC

Office Management & Travel Management Specialist

jgfrerer@trail-angels.com

Our serene all-rounder

Nature lover, musician and adventurer. These three characteristics describe our angel Julia in one sentence. Since her childhood Julia’s heart beats for tourism. After graduating from the HLW Spittal/Drau she decided to pack her suitcase and started to explore the tourist world. With a suitcase full of experiences and mastered challenges Julia came back to Upper Carinthia after several years.

However, her thirst for knowledge and further education was not yet quenched. After finishing an academic-touristic education she was ready for a new challenge. She can now apply her knowledge and experience on a daily basis with us Trail Angels. When Julia is not traveling, continuing her education or on new adventures, she can be found either with her horses in the stable, in the rehearsal room of the local club or in the Upper Carinthian countryside. With her horses, with music and with the help of nature, she can optimally recharge her batteries for her calm and serene nature.

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The Scout for all cases

Stefan is predestined for scouting vertical heights: As a state-certified Mountain and Ski Guide and extreme climber, he is most at home in the mountains. But the environmental systems scientist and devout vegetarian can really be placed anywhere. He already stood his ground in Trail Scouting in the plains of the Puszta, where, as we know, there are hardly even hills to be found.

Stefan has been with the Trail Angels since 2018, having previously worked for an eco-bureau and also as an independent Mountain Guide and alpine author. Tolerance and a love for details are the strengths of the native Bavarian, who, according to his profession, is in addition to trail scouting, always in demand when it comes to pure outdoor competence.
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DI Stefan Lieb-Lind Travel Scout & Mountain- & Skiguide (IVBV) slieb@trail-angels.com

Lisa Pirkebner B.Sc. B.Sc.

Project Management

lpirkebner@trail-angels.com

The multifaceted cheerful soul

After six long years in the metropolis of Carinthia, our new Trail Angels youngster moved back to her home in Upper Carinthia. There she loves to spend time with her family, friends, chickens and dog and also likes to travel the world. Her affection for her homeland, coupled with a university degree in business administration and law and a lot of ambition, motivation and passion for nature, make her the ideal Trail Angel.

Magician with a polish performance guarantee

Shine in all corners, not everyone has that. But Simsalabim, and our Ulli has conjured up cleanliness in the office again. She can be relied on, she overlooks nothing, banishes dirt from our tables and always surprises us with her humor. We know that our Ulli is something very special. Most people underestimate that a magician, when she flits through the office, notices a lot about an office and appreciate her familiarity very much.

Ulrike Thorer

Cleaning person

Stefanie Dolzer B.A.

Project & Communication Management

sdolzer@trail-angels.com

The communicative Mountain Enthusiast

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Steffi supports the management when she is not traveling the world or climbing the mountains with climbing rope, a bike or the ice axe. Not only because of her enthusiasm for travel and sports, she completed her studies in tourism and leisure business, but also because sustainable regional development is close to her heart. With her enthusiasm, motivation, passion for nature and her lightness she fits perfectly into our team. 

A strong roped team

Trail Angels are specialists in the development of sustainable tourism products and their sustainable management. Although our team is constantly growing, it makes sense for large, complex projects to involve proven partners in their implementation. In order to provide additional resources or to be able to cover very special tasks professionally. After all, our experience as mountaineers has taught us that if the path to the summit is difficult, the rope is unpacked and the route is mastered in a strong rope team.

Because together we are stronger!

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