With the recovery of skiing in Australia and New Zealand and the reopening of bookings for the upcoming ski season in the United States and Europe, the long journey is far from safe. Many ski operators, local businesses and resorts rely on outdoor skiing and skiing occasions for a living, especially to attract a younger clientele, many of whom lately cannot take place.
The fact is that the younger generation does not ski; many consider it too destructive ecological and too bourgeois. While they are over 40 and more skiing, statistics show that many under-40s do not need to spend their holidays on the mountain more sensible, making them (increasingly) synthetic snow and paying a fortune for equipment, categories and clothing. Training
The scenario worsened in Europe after a British school government offensive against parents who took their children skiing during the semesters. Young French people are less attracted to their schools because they are afraid of prosecution and many other people now play as excessive and dangerous.
The Austrian hotel in Ischgl is accused of covering up an epidemic this year, according to The Telegraph, when several skiers returned from their holiday with the virus, one of which was Patient Zero in the UK.
Many skiers are suing the hotel for not telling them what it provides in the village: 42.2% of local citizens tested positive for anti-coronavirus antibodies, one of the highest rates in the world.
Professor Dorothee von Laer, director of an Ischgl exam conducted through Innsbruck Medical University, said: “We who widespread events, such as those in post-ski bars, have contributed particularly to widespread spread.
Year after year, many stations attract more and more people with primary musical events, such as the Snowboxx festival in Avoriaz or Polaris in Verbier, whether in France. La Folie Douce has been operating since 1980 in all major French ski resorts, offering cabaret and DJ in the early hours of the morning, to attract the crowd.
But in the Covid-19 era, this moves forward.
Measures will be taken in all resorts from the world to the social distance: reservation of lift passes, reserve spaces for the collection of rental equipment, marked lines for chairlifts, limited capacity in ski buses, mandatory masks, independent holidays, non-contact chalets and pre-Reserved air transfers.
However, it is transparent that the fundamental ethics of post-ski socialization will have to change.
After strict quarantine, Ischgl Mayor Werner Kurz said: “We will make the progress of the last few years and, if necessary, we will make corrections. This means more quality tourism and less festive.”
Now he’s redesigning his aprs-ski famend culture into something much more exclusive and sophisticated, restricting hikers and the medical team at Innsbruck University, evaluating visitors for the virus.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the Mt Baldy ski hotel was the first to open in the United States, complying with Covid-19’s strict measures (e.g., bringing your own equipment, respecting lifting times, dressing with hats, resort-only skiers).
And resorts opened on Monday in the Alpine regions of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria in Australia, as reported by CGTN, with a ban on organisational categories and demonstrations, as a strict protocol for social estrangement.