The continuity of progress cannot be stopped, only not everyone participates in it because many lack an overview of what is feasible and the will to want and be able to shape the future.

When he experienced his first attempts on skis lying down rather than standing in the mid-1970s, these attempts were made on 2.15m long wooden skis with strap bindings. There were already wooden skis with plastic elements and safety bindings with lanyards, but that was not yet known to the general public and, if so, not affordable.

Many places in mountain regions of the Alps, Rocky Mountains and other mountain regions around the world had a thick layer of snow in the 1960s and 1980s, sometimes from November to May. The decision of many mountain villages to position themselves primarily as winter sports locations has given these places a lot of tourism (and wealth).
Summer tourism usually only started at the end of June, when the summer holidays began in other countries. The hotels and restaurants opened, the mountain landscape was there anyway, the hiking trails expanded and apart from “Mei is des shee here!” Little was offered. Why should it, because many hotels will close again in September in order to fully prepare for the coming winter sport. The summer months were also used to renovate or build new hotels or restaurants, as well as to build new gondolas or chairlifts - after all, that was how money was made in winter. From our own experience, the only problem facing the major tourism operators in “Hot Spot Winter Vacation Regions” in the 1980s was that the new sports car was just around the corner in May.

This recipe no longer applies to ski areas below 1000m. Since the mid-1990s, nothing has worked in ski areas without artificial snow. Only through the constant expansion of the snow-making systems is winter sports still possible in the ski areas around / from 400m above sea level from mid / late December to around March.

Hiking, biking, delicious food, great and what else? How quickly will new summer tourism surely change? Is the old target group still relevant for us? What do the new target groups want and where are they? 30% of the guests in the gondolas in winter are already occupied by non-skiers, i.e. people who only want to go to the mountain station and the restaurant there!
Do these guests only come in winter or would they also come to us in summer? Which attractions for the locations can be used in winter and summer? What do foreign tourists prefer, e.g. from China, India, Dubai?