Switzerland

Bollywood drives Indian tourists to Swiss Alps

ZURICH - More and more Indian tourists are making a beeline for the Swiss Alps -- thanks to Bollywood which has now made the landlocked European nation one of its most favourite outdoor locations in t

Beware of the dogs

Alpine tourists attacked by Pyrenean dogs brought in to save the sheep

Jean-Luc Renaud was on a mountain-walking holiday when he saw a bloodstained Belgian tourist staggering towards him.

Snowless Alps?

Alps hit by two-decade decline in snowfall

PARIS — A forthcoming study has added to worries that the Alpine ski industry will be badly affected by global warming, the British weekly New Scientist reports.

A "dramatic step-like drop" in the amount of snow falling in the western European mountain chain occurred in the late 1980s and since then snowfall has never recovered, it ... read more