Correction: Austria-Wrong Seefeld story

Nov 25, 2016 | 6:00 AM

VIENNA — In a story Nov. 25 about the delivery of a trail groomer to an Austrian resort, The Associated Press, citing local officials, reported erroneously that the vehicle had initially been sent to the wrong town. The town’s tourism office acknowledged Monday that it had made the story up.

A corrected version of the story is below:

The head of an Austrian ski resort’s tourism office is acknowledging that he made up a story about a snowcat being mistakenly shipped to a German town with the same name.

Elias Walser said Monday that the story was meant as a publicity stunt for Seefeld village, and “got out of hand.”