“Deep ski areas should develop an exit strategy”

Tourism expert recommends

“Deep ski areas should develop an exit strategy”

Low-lying ski areas are struggling with a lack of snow this year. Tourism expert Jan Mosedale therefore recommends working out a strategy for the future, depending on how many bad winters can still be bridged.

A helicopter flies in snow in Gstaad, pictures of white ski slopes surrounded by green are circulating, some ski areas have to remain closed this winter. The lack of snow makes life difficult for the lower-lying ski areas. With regard to climate change, things are unlikely to get any easier in the next few years.

If you are not sure whether there will be snow in winter, just wait and see. You don’t buy an annual subscription, you book at the last minute. Or look for a warmer destination right from the start. “This lack of snow reliability will have a negative impact on the financial situation of tourist service providers, not just those of mountain railways, in winter destinations,” says Jan Mosedale, lecturer and research director at the Institute for Tourism and Leisure at the University of Applied Sciences in Graubünden, in an interview with “Südostschweiz”.