Alpen-Tourismus vor dem Kollaps: Gibt es einen Ausweg? I auslandsjournal

Where others go on vacation, we work there. Britta Hilpert and Wolf Christian Ulrich, zdf correspondents in Austria, have been watching for years how the Alps change, especially during this season. I'm a skier and I just want to keep skiing. But it's possible, I'm not a skier and I wonder if the mountains haven't already suffered too much. If the mountain paradise is on the edge of the abyss, I can do it. I don't keep blocking every area on every hill. I notice the effects. I don't really want that and he still travels all over the world in this circus.

How do winter holidays work despite climate change instead of ski season? The former access point to the crown. is back in full operation. The crisis is not a problem here. On the contrary, I would return again and again. So I can only recommend it to people. There is a super cool and beautiful atmosphere here, there is a lot to do to catch up, so it is actually like the old days, we have already overcome too many crises at 1,300 meters who comes here wants to have fun and ski, who comes here wants to forget the crises there is a lot of work in the ski paradise they celebrate the snow All in all Climate Changes make skiing consume more energy Clients want perfect slopes from the beginning of the season How much does fun cost?

How does the climate crisis work? Inflation and increase in energy prices For one day in Ischgl I spend 67 euros for the day pass to watch movies and 50 euros for ski equipment, between 130 and 530 euros for the double room per night and for the snacker mountain sausage, for example, a sausage costs 9.60 euros and that is difficult to digest without Jägermeister. Considering the prices, guests have high expectations and for that alone. You can save a little energy, there are no heated seats or brakes on the chairlift. Not wanting to expect any more gondola rides from his guests, cable car director Zange told me in late November that he is still working with scary price forecasts. he increases from 300 to 700 percent and yet he does not want to save on snowmaking.

A ski operation without cutting does not work, so if I make snow like that, now that the guest does not lose comfort, I also pay. Much more than last year for the ski pass. The electricity for the gondolas and track management in Ischgl corresponds to the consumption of 5,600 homes. Most of the time it's green electricity, Zangerl says, but climate change influences energy prices. He also changed his mind, now he can imagine photovoltaics here, even wind turbines. Now in his family there are debates about the environment and the climate and the expense can be justified by saying that, of course, we.

We need energy. I don't think it can be done either. We deny that we are an energy-intensive sector, but we have to see what value is created in the region with this effort. Cable cars and snow cannons provide direct work. In Austria, 17,000 people consume 0.3% of electricity, which is relatively little. Here too, because mountain villages like Ischgl would probably disappear without ski tourism, the people in and around the valley are also preparing for it. that they would lose their livelihood, that they would have to emigrate, but climate change is now clearly noticeable, these images went around the world and 13 deaths on slopes a record at the beginning of this season with little snow Skiing without well-padded snow Buffer zones are dangerous Winters come later and are warmer Since the 1960s, the temperature in the Alps has increased by up to 2 degrees and, depending on the microclimate, this has visible consequences for the snow cover.

Is it possible to ski with climate change? Of course it gets more expensive, no doubt about it I think, but I wouldn't want to ban it so that would be silly. There's just less snow, so you can't ski on ramps or anything like that anymore. because they are that easy, there is not much snow on Sunday, we actually have to handle artificial snow a little differently. For many people it is simply part of winter, some like it so much that they want to do it. spend the night there but it's also a snow hotel no more natural events tell michael rothleitner this snow also comes from the canyon the projects i have now snow cannons have an unfair reputation for being climate sinners says rotleitner is a manufacturing consultant snow a comparison is supposed to show that the new ones save more energy.

The efficiency must simply be because the days are below freezing and getting fewer, so the problem is essentially that the actual cold times when you can always prune are getting fewer and fewer and that means that if you want to cut. You have to efficiently produce a lot of snow in these short periods of time. The new motors and rotors are more modern and that is why 20 years of research shows that the effect of my brotleitner is less than half that of other machines, that is essentially the development. Of the 28 years of energy consumption from snow cannons, he believes they help combat climate change, and so they started snowmaking.

The only thing we can do is ensure a safe start to the season, which means the guest will come. According to the cook, the individual cannons require less energy, but more were needed. Around 70% of the slopes are closed, costing cable cars up to 20% of tourism turnover. At least economically, those who suffer from the climate. But there are not only them, of course they are there, just as each of us is a perpetrator, that is why I believe that we, Europeans and North Americans, also have to be small, that our energy consumption is simply not acceptable . My winter vacation.

It is only possible at 1200 meters. On the ski slope we asked Manuela Mandel. She is one of the most successful freeriders in the world. According to her, the Alps have much more to offer. Winter holidays are also possible without skis. skiing on the slopes, there are many others and sledding could be one of them Favorite leisure activities Manu Mandel is part of a group of athletes who are committed to greater sustainability and climate protection in winter sports Protectore Winters points out that the organization defends our Winters and the Alps I am very conservative when it comes to expanding or merging ski areas, so we believe that we really have enough structure in the alpine region, we need more alpine open spaces, they are already under attack, here's how You see the new cable cars and cabins are built, in other places there are hydroelectric plants or storage ponds, the consumption of land for winter sports is enormous, although in many corners it still seems wild.

No mountain in the world has so much infrastructure and areas of skiing like the Alps There are more than 20 ski areas in Tyrol. I think there are almost 100 ski areas in North America. Sometimes there's a ski area and then you drive for an hour and a half to three and then the next ski area comes, maybe. That is why it is even more important to take care of existing natural spaces. Protektor Winters athletes are now exerting international pressure and demanding climate protection in professional sports as well. Suit This is how the American athletes caught the attention at the World Ski Championships shortly after finishing the competition.

Austrian skier Julian Schütter from Protector Winters presented a petition to the nasties to do more for climate protection. Climate change threatens our sport. Existentially and acutely and if we control it, our sport simply exists. More than 400 athletes have signed. The debate on climate protection is in the middle. When professional sport comes around, the biggest emissions in the ski World Cup are clearly the emissions from travel to reduce them. It kills having to fly back and forth between North America and Europe several times a season for competitions, athletes say, but nasty people don't want to have these kinds of discussions publicly here.

Thank you very much, thank you very much. In the end, Mallnitz's communications manager feels sorry for him. Years ago people began to rethink how an entire ski resort can be sustainable with less snow and fewer visitors, that is the challenge, says Peter Angermann from the Austrian Alps. Club, because it applies As the cradle of mountaineering, there is the Ankogel, 3250 m high and which was climbed for the first time in 1762 by a farmer from the Gastein Valley. In the 70s a lot was happening in Mallnitz, which is why Carinthia celebrated the demolition. At some point the guests moved to other ski areas that offered even more parties and slopes and it became quiet in Mainz.

The answer to the crisis was found by Peter Angermann in tourism. director, invented the concept of a mountain village, friendly tourism as a model for the future, great infrastructure, hotel infrastructure, that's why 3 is the logo of the mountaineer club, local public transport is free for guests and you heat with your own bioelectric plant . But mostly my network is used for train travel, because around 70 percent of the CO2 footprint on a winter holiday is due to arrival and departure alone; For example, traveling from Mainz to Mainitz by plane produces 269 kg of CO2, by car. 140 by train, on the other hand, only about 50 kilograms of CO2.

Because of the warnings about climate change, people are starting to think that kids are already telling their parents that it wasn't like that on the plane and that's how it was. I once took the holiday train with the IC directly to the slopes, so I traveled here but still ate a little. I can only recommend the climate that works. It is much better to take the train by car two hours later. The friend on the train went on a date for the first time. with a flame and then with a cold beer. Stefanie Grischnick took over the Stockerhütte in Mainz when she's not handing out Kaiserschmarren to large crowds, she offers flaming rides for tourists. skiing There are also alternatives to cleaning authentic Austrian llamas accompany tourists through the Tauern Valley there is variety in the Alps this message from Mallnitz has also reached the Zebitz family from Berlin Spandau has drivers and that is why it is always said that balance is that you too You really say you're going to ski or how to go skiing and he does something else and that's why we chose exactly that here because there are so many options for skiers to do something Seefeld in Tyrol at almost 1200 m snow cultivation is what He calls last year's snow, it was stored during the summer, now he helps people do it without it, they would hardly be here.

Laura Dahlmeier comes with the Garmisch hybrid, time to train. In fact, there is considered to be snow on the Seefeld plateau, but now, shortly after Christmas, there are only two. Opened by 20 people, both thanks to snow farming and snow cannons, unfortunately it is relatively normal now, but there is so little snow that I did not expect it, especially once we had snow, but now. For years everything has focused on biathlon, perhaps the World Cup. Those are just my goals and in 2017 he achieved that and even more: five gold medals, one silver at the World Cup and the overall victory at the 2018 World Cup, he won Olympic gold twice.

Laura Dahlmeier is one of the most successful Germans. She is an all-time biathlete, a determined circus star, a thoughtful athlete who speaks for many. I notice the effects of this climate change. I don't really want it and yet she travels all over the world in this circus and she really wants to do something good. for the environment, for the climate and therefore for lives that keep us in conflict Since she left active competitive sports in 2019, she has become more committed to the fight against climate change than to summer mountaineering. She notices how the mountains are changing and stuff.

It was really difficult because in June it was really hard to find ice. We had to make great efforts when we looked at other regions. There are simply no glaciers down there anymore. Everyone wants to preserve and enjoy nature. go there Even if everyone takes small steps, that helps, says Laura Dahlmeier, but the conflict persists. I like to practice cross-country skiing, I like to ski, I like to go on ski tours, ice climbing and for that you need cold temperatures and then snow and if that is naturally easy it no longer exists, then the industry intervenes and, of course, It is a huge sector and there is a lot of money behind it, so I think the whole system always tries to maintain climate protection and skiing.

Both things have to be possible, says Laura Dahlmeier, is living here and many people in Austria depend on the ski industry. 10,000 jobs at Fischer Ski, there are 560. Franz Föttinger shows me the tables that have meant his world since the beginning. Piece of wood in the 1930s to Franz Bracket's national C4 competition event I would say yes and the sales markets were corresponding, but I noticed that they were more than twice as big as what people used to have in the past . have your own pair, which many people no longer want to afford. Warm winters are also mentioned, especially the cross-country skis that remain in storage.

Overall sales are stagnant, inflation,coronavirus, skilled workers, the climate crisis, what most determines your strategy. in the long term, of course, global warming, which is our issue, when it gets warmer, skiing or snow sports, of course, will become a problem or will become more difficult and we assume that we will too . The next 20 or 30 years will be. We will also see very good winters in Europe, but the long-term trend is of course that it will be warmer. Seefeld was already prepared for this, the soul of the house is Elisabeth Gürtler and of course now we have here a creation by really cool jewelry.

Elisabeth Gürtler is elegantly detail-obsessed and meticulous, she is a grandmother and, like the Sacher Hotel, she is one. Austrian institution, with it large guests are recovering from the global crises and the crises barely affect the luxury segment. She explains to me that she doesn't have many guests, which is why some have always booked the single room. Anyway, the rule of the chain is that they do not pay so much for accommodation, but still everyone has comforts and has the savings 4,500 square meters of well-being 32 degrees indoor temperature Doubling the surface of the bar recently cost 6 million euros Your guests come here especially.

Due to the snow conditions outside, a little service is important. Specialists are sure that the biggest problem is, of course, the prices: in total we have risen 15% over a year because personnel costs have increased, we can only listen to good people. salaries, but also because energy prices have increased incredibly, the Sacher saves empty rooms from remaining unheated, one in four outdoor swimming pools is expected to be as exclusive as the prices, Elisabeth Gürtler knows that marriage Malzström from Berlin is among those who understand that Everyone is sitting in the middle of this energy or not only the energy crisis but also the other crisis and I would also be willing to accept it and, if so, if the service is reduced, So that's what all the guests think.

I don't believe it. On vacation, it is difficult for everyone to do without nice things and Franz Hörl is one of those who thinks that no one has to do it, the influential conservative politician believes that winter tourism is the heart of the Austrian economy. It is our production area and no one talks about the third fourth line of the factory, but everyone talks about the slopes. Skiing doesn't kill the climate, he says electricity comes mainly from hydroelectric power. The winter season consumes 2,780 gigawatt hours, that is, 0.9. % of Austria's electricity, but in terms of climate change according to our forecasts there is not a big difference, in 2050 we will drive the same as today, the snow line will move about 200 meters in altitude, we have that easily under control, so Eberstein in Carinthia at 580 m Nowadays everyone is talking about climate protection.

The biolandhaus Arche in Carinthia has been demonstrating how this can be done during the winter holidays for almost 40 years. Welcome to Austria's first eco-friendly hotel. Blessing to this house and to all who come and leave here may we live a healthy, successful and loving year. That will always be. Tessmann blesses his hotel for the guests and for the winter season he proudly shows us his house, which is now basically made of clay. Clay is, so to speak, the best building material. It stores moisture very well and returns it very slowly to the room. Wood The Tessmanns had already noticed that it breathes, slows its heartbeat and. sleep better Since the late 80s here there is a solar system when it snows.

That was a special moment here, yes, we are the first hotel in Austria to receive an environmental label, the Austrian label with the number 0 0 1. and we are still proud to this day. We still have a task to accomplish so that the region is worth living and worthy of living and remains viable in the kitchen, they cook vegetarians, it was a basic principle of my mother almost 40 years ago, yes we were. practically the first, so he had to listen a lot, from the cereal consumer to how people are really satiated and so on, and today you can see in the climate debate that of course it is very important that we eat again more vegetarian food.

Since there is no meat it means much less CO2, the guests come, that's why there has been no meat for 30 years and I can't find a hotel like this where I can. The food is very good in a weather-conscious hotel and guests are drawn to it. Some have traveled by train from very far away and already require 12 hours by train to get here and pass through Vorarlberg in Switzerland. That's vacation quality, I say it now. Since the CO2 footprint of one night in a hotel is calculated. Among other things, from the hotel's energy consumption, laundry, water, waste and, of course, the food available in a normal hotel, a guest in the biolandhaus Arche consumes 19 kg of CO2 per day, while only six and a half, an unprecedented amount in Austria.

Word has also spread among alternative practitioners who teach a seminar here in the snowy landscape. They seek healing and strength. It's remote here, it is. silence and it's about being, not action here, we can really get into your devotion to being and give space to come down, yes, and that's more attractive, it's very good that seminars like this book rooms weekly, Tessmann comes According Bass, the length of guests' stay has been reduced from 5.2 to 3.6 days, as throughout Austria what should have been 14 days is now ten. The days that used to be five are now three. The seminars also give you guests all year round regardless of the season and that is the crux of the matter for many hotels, surviving without snow.

Seminars are easy to plan, 40% of sales already go to this seminar area. That being said, I now manage to spread it out throughout the year. The eco-hotel has a unique advantage: it is climate-friendly and therefore independent of the ski season. Geißau Hintersee, at 740 meters, was already planned. three weeks before There is now enough snow on Hintersee for the 450 Soul Village to become a major event. In the end I meet Albert Ebner, Rosi and Franz Kloiber, both of whom have been amateur meteorologists for decades and their family keeps snow weather records for the longest time until May.

We've been doing this for over 25 years and all. What we can see here at Hintersee is that warming will have an impact on the climate in the sense that temperatures will increase and new moods will unfortunately decrease. These events are now necessary. , said Albert Ebner, he owns the only hotel in the place where it snows and is not reliable and to attract guests, his family also had some meetings about the climate change crisis and talked about making the business smaller or investing, we are getting They were getting bigger and bigger and swimming against the water and saying: we will try it, we will try it, we have a concept behind it and that helps, because the eight lifts in the ski area have been up and running since this season.

Climate change has made work uneconomical. In the region, some have drawn the consequences. The Alte Post hotel is closed. Winter, on the other hand, could barely make up for it. On the day of the dog races there was a lot of activity, the whole family contributed without his approval, he probably would not have invested. He did not want to say the sum, it was probably millions for chalets with a sauna and a subway car. park, is now in operation year-round with or without snow. He hopes he has adapted in time. We figure we can do our annual deal here with skiing and also without skiing, but I'm sure there will be ski areas that do that.

You will probably stop and find yourself in a situation where you don't know. Naturally, this is difficult to calculate, so we have to move in another direction. The number of ski areas with safe snow in the Austrian Alps was 200 in 2007, with a total of up to 200. two degrees warming, only 115 with up to four degrees warming, only 47 if there is snow, Albert will rent skis from crossing, if they don't offer bicycles, you might expect to use the elevator again, but that's not the case. Already central Yes, before it was central, yes, but in the future, if I imagine my model like this, it will probably be part of ours.

The entire offer will be available throughout the year, as they say in technical jargon. we will probably be less due to climate change, so from 110 I guess it will take 60 to 80 90 days for air to become profitable. If it operates for more than 100 days, Hintersee has to do without We also went up the mountain without a lift early with Anita Bitterlich and Gerd Frühwirt from the Salzburg Alpine Club. They are perfectly equipped and we always had them with us when moving through open terrain, although caution is recommended. We went up the old track from higher up you can see Germany and a glacier that is no longer below these three peaks and you can see one peak is the Watzmann Jungfrau, there is the Watzmannka and at the end of this chaos there was a glacier. which in recent decades has melted.

The times when you can ski really well are increasingly scarce. We've simply adapted and go skiing when we can do a trendy snowshoe getaway at Latschen Alm. association for nature conservation the warm climate is a hot topic Winfried believes that man is already putting too much pressure on the Alps in general I think we have already exceeded the limits that are good for us and that are good for us The mountains and Our season in Geißau means that we have to close a small ski area and create space for backcountry skiers. So I appreciate that everyone wants something of their own from the mountain.

The idea of ​​us getting together and where do we want to go? Good development, even if alternative energies are used for the ski lifts on which wind turbines etc. are built. Air does not beautify mountains, now wind turbines are also built to operate them. Environmentally friendly ski tourism for everyone and probably won't. "You have as nice an ending as our tour. Ski tours will probably never be a mass sport. It was exhausting, but I recommend it once you're there, you've worked hard on the mountain." I am really proud and satisfied, yes you have done it and you can wait for relegation.

Less is more, that's what I experience here. A particularly beautiful descent in Sulden, in Italian South Tyrol, at 1906 meters. from Ortler, we visit Reinhold Messner, who remembers JAX in the courtyard. A great adventure in the Himalayas is a legend that mountaineers have been fighting for decades for respectful tourism in the Alps. The most beautiful places in South Tyrol are no longer attractive because they are there. There are hundreds of people there every day who only take photos of the landscape and end up believing that the landscape has been taken away from them. The young enter the old but they wanted to have a fall.

They want to have the kick but not the sustainable one. way of experiencing nature Reduction of Messner's mantra, climbing the highest peaks with few tools, Messner also calls for this reduction to the essentials for tourism in the Alps countless lectures and books I would like to read to you from his book saves the ancient writings 20 ago years for further development of the high mountain region for pure leisure pleasure, skiing, hiking, cycling and climbing should be avoided. If I said it the same way today, I would be there for it. The important things we need to address.

Now in the Alps is the distribution of our guests. In some places we have too many, in others too few. Here in Golden, one of the most famous ski resorts, two hours away. With it, heavy traffic would have long since occurred here, despite the fact that local public transport is free for hotel guests, which is why new beds in hotels should now be authorized in South Tyrol. In exceptional cases, Nils Demetz, spokesman for Val Gardena hoteliers, considers it okay. In Val Gardena he would have been working for a long time on a strategy to make tourism truly sustainable and of course the question is how much is acceptable and how much more should be.

Added to this is an adequate care program and sufficient variety in the hotels throughout the year. When it's full, guests stay an average of 5 days, which is quite a long time, meaning it's generally sustainable, but winter holidays are also becoming more exclusive. , which means it is more expensive. Exclusivity is certainly a sustainable option because the quantity is limited and I also believe that this exclusivity will allow us to grow in the future and will also bring, of course, one or two price increases as well. I need them, but I think basically everyone will benefit from this: the guests, the local population and also the economic engine make the area unaffordable for local young people.

In the neighboring village of ST Kassian we see nobles. Very expensive newly built holiday apartments for the well. High heels are not a solution for the future, say the green political elite. Real estate prices arerising to more than 10,000 euros per square meter. Tourists are from outside, they come to the valley and they also like to invest here with us. Then this alienation arises between the local society. The local population and tourists who grow up here often cannot support themselves economically and move away without tourists. Now a dead silence reigns in the place in the off-season. Nothing happens, so for example the Visan Kassian is extinct, you could say that there are more things on the slopes.

This track is one of the most famous World Cup tracks in the world. They want to celebrate the World Ski Championships here. 2029 directly in Sassolungo with a purely seasonal race director on the ski circuit and the driver of the World Cup candidacy. What comes here is simply a conversion. We want to build here in all media structures. Underground, parking lots should also be green in summer, snow white in winter, and the skin will disappear. We want to offer a sustainable World Cup and, to set an example, we also see our traffic problems every day, people should come. to our race directly from the hotels with the flags and after finishing they return with their skis to the hotels.

Val Gardena has a great World Cup history, some of them still remember 1970 when a certain Rosi Mittermeier started here where he coached Mittermeier from Reit im Winkl. Since yesterday, a television center offers two more studios than many German journalists have chosen from home. The perfect winter sports event that they now want in green, a convincing argument in times of climate change, a track with guarantees. Here we are at 2,250 meters of snow, we are very high and that is why the next years, the next decades can save us. The costs of environmental protection at major sporting events have long been critically examined, he explained.

It is a moral duty, the tracks and the infrastructure have been there for years, we have everything, we have the list, we have everything and that is why it is sustainable for us Elite Mussner sees it differently. She made sure her community didn't. participate in the World Cup We are involved in the candidacy, I would say, in a very good example of greenwashing because on the one hand people talk about sustainability but they simply do not understand that a massive event has nothing to do with sustainability. But how does ski tourism in Val Gardena work sustainably throughout the year?

Places are limited, they want quality instead of quantity and an elite pattern of the sustainable ski World Cup is not enough, it requires a different attitude when going on vacation, people came 100 years ago or 50 years ago years in the garden just to walk, why is that no longer possible today you need downhill for mountain bikes you need ski slopes in winter you can just enjoy nature even without infrastructure maybe because many people do so wants? entertainment adrenaline snow in the future Experts believe that only the largest and highest ski areas will benefit, the others struggle to survive Reinhold Messner believes that guests now have everything in their hands Prolonging their stay in the mountains would be a key to cleanliness.

Tourism is the ideal way to relax and get into the mountain because I can only understand the effort at the speed of the pedestrian mountain, suddenly I can estimate to a certain extent how big it is. I am convinced that old tourism will not die. On the contrary, it will even grow if we create offers that are not based on pleasure but on sustainability. This ski season has surprised everyone. Climate change is changing the mountains. Winter sports and tourism are no longer possible, so there will be fewer ski areas. and those that continue will be more expensive.

In the end, it is the guests who decide how they want to experience the Alps and whether in the future they will accept the mountains as they are, great and unpredictable.