Fed-up residents of the Austrian town of F**king are being offered a helping hand by their German neighbours in a town named W**k.

Welcome to W**k – a signpost greets visitors

The people of F**king have grown tired of English-speaking tourists acting out their village’s name (and also, no doubt, of amused British journalists writing stories about it.)

But now residents of the German town of W**k have told them grasp the opportunity.


Juergen Stoll, who runs the W**k guest house, said: ‘The people in F**king should cash in on their fame.

‘I have so many visitors here at the W**k guest house that we have the mattresses all in a line in one big room for people to sleep on. Otherwise we couldn’t fit everybody in.



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‘If the name helps to bring the tourists in, then why not cash in on it? In these credit crunch times every little helps,’ he added.

In summer visitors can take hikes up the 1,780 metre W**k Mountain, or, if they prefer, take it easy in the four seater W**k cable car that goes all the way to the peak.

There are numerous opportunities to enjoy paragliding at W**k, and in winter it’s possible to go skiing on the W**k piste.

Local tourism chiefs say they realised that although the name meant nothing in German, it was a goldmine when it came to attracting English-speaking visitors.

A W**k tourism spokesman said: ‘There are W**k postcards on sale although many people prefer to take their own W**k holiday snaps standing beside Welcome to W**k signs.’

F**king recenty announced plans to install CCTV to deter tourists from lewd behaviour beside their roadsigns. The mayor of F***ing, Franz Meindl, previously complained: ‘We don’t find it funny. We just want to be left alone. We don’t harm anyone and just want to live in peace.’