In France's Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, home to Courchevel, Val d'Isere, Meribel and Tignes, tourist spending totalled €21 billion in 2018, generating nearly a 10th of gross domestic product and 171,000 jobs.
At an elevation of 800 metres, Garmisch – known for its landmark ski jump – has little prospect of maintaining its status as a winter sports haven.Juergen Hilla, a school teacher from near Frankfurt, predicted that skiing and other winter sports may not be viable in Garmisch in the longer term and that he and his wife may have to consider alternatives for their ski holiday.
To make up for a lack of natural snowfall, resorts switch on the cannons, although they're energy intensive and unpopular with environmentalists. Producing artificial snow will get harder as temperatures rise, Olefs predicted. "Higher areas will survive, but they will have to invest more in snowmaking and to cope with the additional tourist inflow."
Summer bookings overtook winter in Austria as well a few years ago, even as revenue is still higher in the winter months because of equipment purchases and lift fees. In Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Austria, ski runs are transformed into tracks for summer mountain bikers, and cable cars are remodelled to accommodate the riders and their bikes on their way up.
So what are they doing on the ski lift when there’s no snow?
The continued indoctrinations.
Revenues from the global market for alpine ski equipment are expected to reach roughly US$ 700 Mn by 2022-end.
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