|
Siegi Baumgartner, the founder of Siegi Tours was born in St. Veit im Pongau in the beautiful Salzburger Land / Austria and learned to ski with 2 and a half years of age. With 16 years of age he started his long term carrier as a ski instructor and ski school owner passing all exams possible in this skiing business like certified Austrian ski instructor, alpine ski guide, certified coach of the Austrian Ski-instructors’ Association, member of the training team and examining board for Austrian ski instructors and topping his carrier leading the Austrian |
Demonstrating Team of ski instructors at the Olympics for Ski Instructors in Bad Gastein and winning ahead of Japan, Italy and France.
For 14 years he worked as a trainer for the Austrian Ski Instructors’ Association meeting members of the Wiesbaden Ski Club in 1968 who were trying to ski at the glacier of the Kitzsteinhorn but got themselves into really dangerous situations being total beginners and threatened by the big drops and cliffs of this high alpine area. He helped them to get down the hill safely and was invited to their party in the evening.
160 American skiers from Wiesbaden on their Thanksgiving trip to Kaprun! They promised to bring a group of skiers to
St. Veit the next year where Siegi had just opened his own ski school.
A big THANK YOU to Mr. Brian R. Kilgallen who organized the trip and thus helped the start of a family organization which would bring over 55000 skiers and snowboarders from all around the world into a growing ski area for more than 40 years. They left the little dreamy alpine village with unforgettable memories, many coming back year after year and passing the word about Siegi Tours.
The following year the Heidelberg Ski Club coming to Siegi Tours for 39 years now skied with Siegi as their ski instructor and entertainer in St. Veit and later in St. Johann im Pongau where he became the owner of the ski school as well.
Together with his wife Irene he managed to get most of the American ski clubs from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and from the USA to ski in St. Veit and St. Johann/Alpendorf.
6 years later Mrs. Ann LeCornu who worked in an information centre for the British Royal Air Force / Army in Rheindahlen/Germany and her family visited Siegi Tours and was so enthusiastic about this great unique ski programme that she promoted Siegi Tours by all means and made it popular not only in all Germany but also in Great Britain and Cypress. |
 |
THANK YOU, ANN you became a good friend!
Many years of promotion in the U.S., Great Britain and throughout Germany followed, always assisted by his wife Irene, a former sports and English student at the Sports High School and University of Cologne/Germany, working as a ski instructor in Siegi’s ski school until their daughters Kerstin and Silvana were born.
Throughout the years Siegi Tours made the ski school St. Johann /Alpendorf the fifth biggest ski school in the Salzburger Land and helped and supported the local ski area which is now part of the largest ski area in all Europe skiable on one lift pass – the Ski Amadè.
For more than 15 years Siegi Tours is organizing a very attractive Golf Safari in the summer time visiting the leading golf courses in Austria.
Mr. Ron Powell from Brüggen/Javelin Barracks was the first to bring a golf group to Siegi Tours!
All in all the Siegi Tours complete ski and golf package for a week or just single days, a perfect holiday with excellent value for money is attractive for singles, families, school and youth groups, private groups, ski clubs and units.
So, the roots of Siegi Tours go way back based upon the motivation to help skiers lost in the high mountain region. Today the SIEGI TOURS TEAM with Siegi, Irene, Kerstin, Silvana, Michael and Sven offer their helping hand wherever necessary to make your holiday a great and unforgettable one.
It is now time to extend a big THANK YOU to all our friends all over the world who helped to promote
Siegi Tours throughout those 40 years.
You will never ever be forgotten!! We will always share special memories!! |
