Alpine Tourism

Wintertime Alpine tourists urged to respect wildlife

The increasing popularity of such winter sports as free-ride snowboarding or snowshoe walking is threatening the survival of wild animals in mountain regions.

Ground-Breaking For Andermatt Resort

First integrated holiday resort to open in the Alps

Ground-breaking took place today by Orascom Development Holding AG for the first integrated holiday resort in the Alps, the Andermatt. What is an itegrated resort?

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