Team
The LTS team currently consists of 20 people. The personnel structure is as follows:
Board of Directors | |
Hubert Unterweger | CEO |
Institutional functions | |
Carmen Heinz | Administration, training, management |
Tanja Targa | Accounting |
Alexandra Mayr | Administration, project assistance, privacy protection |
IT department | |
Alfred Premstaller | Technical management |
Ulrich Seppi | Software development |
Salvatore Camaldo | Software development |
Roque Stimpfl | Software development |
Demas Leonardi | Software development |
Gianpaolo Giangrande | Software development |
Simone Prestifilippi | Software development |
Umberto Di Romano | Software development |
Andrès Tanesini | Software development |
Daniel Valentin | IT - Serivce desk |
David Pittracher | IT - Service desk |
Simon Premstaller | IT - Service desk |
Ingomar Thaler | IT - Service desk |
Benjamin Matscher | IT - Service desk |
Stefan Weissensteiner | Technical and sales representatives |
Siegfried Mayer | Technical and sales representatives |
Organisational bodies
LTS’s governing body is made up of elected and appointed presidents and board members from South Tyrol's tourist boards and tourism associations, who work on a volunteer basis. LTS, as per its constitution, consists of the following agents:
General Meeting | |
Board | (11 board members) |
Supervisory Board | (2 Supervisory board members) |
Since the election in May 2022 the LTS committee has been comprised of the following people (term of office 2022 - 2026):
President | |
Ambros Hofer |
Vice President | |
Martin Huber |
Board | |
Stefan Gruber | Rio Pusteria |
Ambros Hofer | Ortisei |
Ingrid Hofer Walch | Merano |
Wolfgang Holzner | Renon |
Martin Huber | Brunico |
Christioph Kofler | Val d'Ega |
Christian Pescollderungg | Alta Badia |
Karl Pfitscher | Silandro |
Paul Rainer | Ultimo |
Sighard Rainer | Caldaro |
Dieter Wurmböck | San Candido |
Supervisory board | |
Dr. Karl Florian | Caldaro |
Dr. Robert Peintner | Bressanone |
Participating interests
Since 2005 LTS has held a 10% share of Alps Fly Reservation GmbH, which aims to increase the number of chartered flights to South Tyrol.
The LTS
The South Tyrol Association of Tourism Organisations (known as State Association for Travel Organisations from 1981 until 1994), LTS for short, is the umbrella association for tourist boards in South Tyrol. LTS currently represents 67 tourist boards at a political level and at all important state level tourism committees. LTS is managed by a board of 11 members including a president and two vice presidents.
The central functions of LTS can be broken down into institutional activities; information provision, IT support, and software development as well as training for tourism organisation employees.
In addition to its institutional functions, LTS supports member organisations with any concerns in day-to-day business, represents members' interests at committees and advisory boards, implements state-wide tourism projects, concludes framework agreements and conventions, coordinates state-wide, standardised tourism solutions, carries out analyses and assessments, works with other trade associations and tourism partners and is politically committed to a balanced financing of tourism organisations.
Information is disseminated through regular newsletters and circulars on tourism themes as well as news about IT content. Furthermore LTS supports tourism organisations with advice about legal and contractual concerns. LTS’s IT support covers the entire IT spectrum including hardware and software as well as an IT telephone hotline. In addition to this LTS continually develops the TIC-Web back office software and supports and advises tourism organisations on networking. In terms of further training, LTS offers its members needs based and value for money seminars on subjects such as tourism, marketing, communication, internet/social media and personal competencies.
In 1999 the LTS cooperative, LTS Gen. for short, was founded to outsource the fast growing demand for IT services, additional training as well as accountancy from the LTS association. The founding of this association has subsequently proved to be successful.