A funny fact about Austria is popular on the Internet: supposedly tourists so often confuse this country with Australia that one of the airports had to install an information stand to help unlucky passengers. We decided to check if such messages are true.
About the rack or information board with the SOS button, designed to help those who flew to Salzburg by mistake, hoping to be on the other side of the world, write Information, Entertaining And Cognitive Portals. Users of social networks are shared by this information (Facebook*, "VKontakte" X, Telegram) and the platform blog ("Zen","Picabu" Livejournal). Some They saythat the stand is located not in Salzburg, but in Vienna.
Many posts about the help of helping lost tourists are accompanied by a photo of a poster with a large inscription in English: “Sorry, this is Austria, not Australia. Need help? Please click the button. " To the right of the inscription is a large SOS button, but it is hardly possible to press it - it's just a picture on a poster. On the Web you can find several photos of this banner from different angles, so there is no doubt that it exists (or at least existed), no. In some pictures, a luggage tape is visible under the poster.
However, if you study the poster a little more attentive, it becomes clear that he has nothing to do with the airport services. A smaller font on it says: “Commend provides safety and communication. From Salzburg to the rest of the world. Even in the most incredible situations. ” The site address is also indicated - www.commed.com. Judging by the information presented there, Commend (it is the poster advertises it) has nothing to do with travel. She develops security and communication systems used to protect, monitor, control access, including an emergency call, which is shown on a banner.
Representatives of the airport of Salzburg in the official account on Facebook also They saidthat no advance to those who gathered in Australia never existed - it was only the “brilliant advertising idea” of Comment. And in Comments For the LEAD Stories fact, they noted that no one confuses flights to Austria and Australia, so such a stand with the SOS button would be simply useless. And, judging by the wording of “incredible situations” on the poster, tourists who fell into Austria by mistake are not at all common.
Representative Comment Wolfgang Per confirmed USA Today, that such an advertising poster appeared at the airport of Salzburg in 2009, in 2018 its design was updated, and in 2022, when advertising banners at the airport were replaced with digital screens, was removed.
However, confusion with the names of the two countries sometimes occurs. So, in 2018, one of the Australian users of the blog platform Reddit Shared A photograph of the parcel, which was delivered two months later. On the packaging stood five stamps “erroneously sent to Austria”, near one of them by hand - presumably, an employee of the post - it was completed and several times emphasized “again”. Some commentators noted the fact that the Austrian postal service even has special stamps for such cases, that is, apparently, this is not a single incident.
Thus, there was no and was not at Australia instead of Australia instead of Australia instead of Australia, at the airport of Salzburg. But for a long time there was a creative advertising banner of Comment, which became truly viral. In 2023, more than ten years after the poster appeared at the airport, his photo - with the address of the company's website - continues to disperse on the Internet.
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