| The City Tours team |
Radosveta Iontcheva, Executive Director
Languages: German, Bulgarian, Russian, Italian, English
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Radosveta Iontcheva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She lived in Eastern Berlin for some years before moving to Vienna where she studied law. In 2002, Radosveta Iontcheva started to work in the tour guide company AHRE Austria Guide founded by her former husband Alexander Ehrlich. Together with him, she finally founded City Tours Austria and is ever since leading the company. Radosveta Iontcheva is responsible for all administrative concerns of City Tours Austria (cooperations, legal matters, accountancy), coordinates our offline marketing and takes care of our customers from Eastern Europe, Asia and Oceania.
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Alexander Ehrlich, Sales Manager
Languages: German, French, Italian, English
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Alexander Ehrlich is originally from Mayerling in the Vienna Woods where his father owned a hotel restaurant. He studied translation at the Vienna university, passed the Austria tour guide exam in 2002 and founded the Vienna tour guides company AHRE Austria guide. His special interest city walks, among them "Spooky Vienna - hauntings and vampires", rewarded him local and international success and allowed the foundation of City Tours Austria. Being a tour guide himself, Alexander Ehrlich is responsible for the quality management of our tour guide agency as well as for the design of new city walks and sightseeing tours. Besides that, Alexander Ehrlich takes care of our online marketing and corresponds with our customers from Western Europe, Africa and America.
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Felicitas Bachner, Management Assistant
Languages: German, English, Italian
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Felicitas Bachner is the daughter of one of the most successful licensed tour guides in Vienna. She is a passionate horseback rider and studies agriculture at the university of Vienna. Felicitas Bachner is responsible for our ecotourism programs as well as for event production, event management and wedding planning in Austria. She helps with the design of our promotional publications and keeps our service catalogue up to date. Besides that, she is also responsible for the human ressource management of City Tours Austria.
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Thomas Köberle, Head Tour Guide
Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
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Thomas Köberle comes from a very traditional family in Vorarlberg. As a student, he earnt his life with guided tours of Innsbruck before leaving Austria to follow language studies in Great Britain, France and Italy. Back in Austria, he worked as an actor and German language teacher while studying French, Italian and English at the Innsbruck university. Finally, he worked for several years as a hotel receptionist and Vienna tour guide before joining the team of City Tours Austria. Thomas Köberle helps with historical research, development of new city walks and sightseeing tours and does also contribute essentially to our offline marketing. Besides that, he actively participates in our translation projects.
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Anne-Sophie Petit, translator and web promoter
Languages: French, English, German
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Anne-Sophie Petit was born in Calais, France. She studied translation at the universities of Lille III and Cergy-Pontoise in France, and spent some time in the United States and in Germany. She first arrived in Vienna in 2010 to do an internship with City Tours, and then became part of the team as a translator, writer and web promoter. Anne-Sophie Petit translates the company's websites and further documents from German into French and English and also takes part in expanding and improving already existing websites, and developing and writing new websites.
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Laura Varesano, marketing assistant
Languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish
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Laura Varesano was born in Dijon, France. She graduated from the university of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris with a bachelor in tourism and spent several months in the United Kingdom and in Cyprus. Laura Varesano joined the City Tours team in Vienna in 2010, first as an intern and then as a full-time employee in the sales department. Laura Varesano is specialized in email and phone communication with the company's customers in French, English and Italian and in the development of tailor-made travel offers. She also takes part in organizing events.
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Katrin Leitinger, management assistant
Languages: German, English, Dutch
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Katrin Leitinger was born and grew up in Styria, Austria. After living in Vienna for some time, she spent six years in the Netherlands where she studied biotechnology. She had however always felt herself drawn to the service industry - and therefore worked for some time in this sector in the Netherlands before joining the City Tours team in Vienna, Austria in 2011. Katrin Leitinger develops tailor-made offers for City Tours's customers in German, Dutch and English. She is responsible for the communication with Dutch-speaking customers.
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Anna Ehrlich, Consultant
Languages: German, Italian, English, French, Spanish
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Anna Ehrlich is originally from Lower Austria. She studied philosophy, psychology, history and law at the Vienna university and worked as an actress and Vienna tour guide ever since her college days. Her special interest city walks as well as her many books about Austrian history are well-known in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Anna Ehrlich runs her own Vienna tour guide company for many years and assists City Tours Austria with her knowledge and expertise. Besides that, she contributes to our catalogues by her exceptional photos of Austrian sightseeing attractions and landscapes. Today, Anna Ehrlich does seldom lead a guided tour herself, she can however be booked as a lecturer, speaker or commentator for conferences about any aspect of Austrian history.
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or by using our contact form.