Susanne Kraus-Winkler

Susanne Kraus-Winkler is one of the most prominent figures in the Austrian and European hotel and tourism industry. She combines decades of entrepreneurial experience with extensive industry representation and political engagement at both national and international levels.

She was a founding partner of the LOISIUM Wine & Spa Hotels and is a shareholder of the Harry’s Home Hotel Group. From 2022-2025, she served as State Secretary for Tourism in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Economy in Austria. Until 2018, she represented the industry on an EU level as President of HOTREC, the European umbrella association for hotels and restaurants in Brussels. Until May 2022, she was Chairwoman of the Hotel Industry Association in the Austrian Economic Chamber, responsible for representing around 16,000 hotel businesses. Since June 2025, she has been the Chairwoman of the Federal Division of Tourism and Leisure Industries in the Austrian Economic Chamber, representing approximately 95,000 businesses in the tourism and leisure industry in Austria. She is a lecturer at national and international congresses and institutions, including as a guest lecturer in the Real Estate Master's program at Danube University.