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ich meine Zeit in Karlsbad nicht als Kurgast verbringe, sondern als<br />

Geschäftsführer des <strong>Pupp</strong> Casino Club, ist es ein Ort wo ich für die<br />

täglichen Herausforderungen eines modernen Managerlebens<br />

krea tiv inspiriert werde und meine Batterien rasch aufladen kann.<br />

Hier fühle ich mich im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes rundum wohl.<br />

haben Sie in der Stadt einen Lieblingsort?<br />

Das ist eine schwierige Frage. Die Stadt bietet für mich sehr viele<br />

schöne Plätze. Ganz besonders hervorheben möchte ich allerdings<br />

die Wälder in die man vom <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong> aus gelangt. Besonders<br />

die Wanderungen im Herbstwald von den verschiedenen Aussichts<br />

punkten bis hin zur Waldandacht der Kaiserin Sissi. Wie<br />

kann es auch anders sein komme ich doch aus Österreich.<br />

Welche Beziehung haben Sie zum <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong>?<br />

Meine Beziehung zum <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong> begann schon im Jahre<br />

1989 wo ich mich das erste Mal in Karlsbad befand. Es war zur Zeit<br />

wo Casinos Austria International das Casino im Bad I leitete.<br />

<strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong> hat wie die Liebe zweier Menschen seine Ro mantik<br />

und Schönheit nie verloren und wird sie nie verlieren. Meine<br />

Beziehung zum <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong> ist also nicht nur eine geschäftliche<br />

sondern eine Liaison mit der Schönheit der Vergan genheit.<br />

Was würden sie unseren Lesern ausrichten?<br />

Karlsbad ist ein Ort der regenerierenden Energie. Lassen sie den<br />

Alltag und alles störende hinter sich. Tauchen sie in die Schönheit<br />

der Vergangenheit ein und nehmen Sie die Energie in sich auf.<br />

Fühlen Sie sich glücklich, so wie ich es tue und das hat nicht mit<br />

Roulette oder Black Jack zu tun. (Herr Schwingshandl lacht.)<br />

AN INTERVIEW<br />

WITH THE DIRECTOR OF PUPP CASINO CLUB<br />

Werner Schwingshandl was born in 1966 in Innsbruck, the capital<br />

of Tyrol. He completed a master’s degree in Business Administration<br />

and a Master of Science degree in Human Resource Management at<br />

the Open University of Milton Keynes in England. For more than<br />

20 years he has worked for Casinos Austria AG and since November<br />

2010 as director of <strong>Pupp</strong> Casino Club. His career in the casino and<br />

entertainment industries began Mr. Schwingshandl on board of the<br />

world’s largest operator of cruise ship, the Royal Caribbean Cruise<br />

Line. Among others, the construction and opening of the Grand<br />

Casino Bern, in the capital of Switzerland in 2002, as Chief<br />

Technical Officer, were his greatest challenges and successes.<br />

how do you like living in Karlovy Vary?<br />

Through several years abroad I met a lot of places people and cultures.<br />

To get to know people and cultures is one thing to become<br />

accepted and respected another. Personally, I can say without exception<br />

that I got friendly and helpful accepted by all people and<br />

business partners in Karlovy Vary. As Karlovy Vary is my place<br />

where I work and not live like a spa visitor who takes treatments,<br />

I still have to say that as a manager of the <strong>Pupp</strong> Casino Club with<br />

all the daily challenges of managing an opera tion it’s my place whe-<br />

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InTERvIEW<br />

re I am creative inspired, and where I can quickly recharge my<br />

batteries. Here, I feel in the truest sense prosperous.<br />

have you got a favorite place in town?<br />

Well this is a difficult question for me, as there are so many beautiful<br />

places for me. But one I have to mention in special and that’s the<br />

hill behind the <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong>. In particular the walk through<br />

the leave forest, from one observation point to the next one, until<br />

I reach Lesní pobožnost, the spiritual place of the Austrian Empress<br />

Sissi. So how could it be different as I am from Austria.<br />

and what is your relationship to the <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong>?<br />

My relationship to the Grand Hotel <strong>Pupp</strong> began in 1989 where<br />

I was the first time in Karlovy Vary. It was at the time where<br />

Casinos Austria International started the first Casino operation in<br />

the Bath I. I can say, that the <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong>, is for me like an<br />

everlasting romantic love story. In other words my relationship to<br />

the <strong>Grandhotel</strong> <strong>Pupp</strong> is not just a business but an affair with the<br />

beauty of the past.<br />

What would are your recommendations for our readers?<br />

Karlovy Vary is a place of regenerative energy. Let your everyday<br />

life and all state of the art high-tech equipment behind you. Dip<br />

into Karlovy Varies beauty of the past, and absorb the everlasting<br />

energy of this beautiful place. Feel prosperous and happy, like I do<br />

and this has nothing to do with the luck at Roulette or Black Jack in<br />

our Casino. (Mr. Schwingshandl laughs.)

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