Tourism and leisure Tourism resorts welcome data models for snow safety
The new data models on snow safety launched by tourism organizations and the scientific community have met with great interest among Swiss destinations.
17.11.2025, 14:33
SDA
The tools are intended to help winter sports resorts, mountain railroads, hotels and other stakeholders to better plan their future in the face of rising temperatures.
The models introduced a month ago as part of the "Compass Snow" project were received "very positively" by the destinations, Swiss Cableways Director Berno Stoffel told the news agency AWP on Monday. Major construction projects are pending in many places. "For these service providers, the models we provide are also a confirmation and help them to obtain the necessary permits more easily and based on data."
"Winter tourism is not disappearing, it is changing," Stoffel told media representatives. Ski resorts, especially those at lower altitudes, will have to cope with less snowy winters and greater uncertainty. Depending on the situation, the higher temperatures can already become a problem for destinations at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea level - and the trend is rising.
In order to document the problem of snow reliability on a fact-based basis and to support tourism providers in making investment decisions, the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF), with data from MeteoSwiss and the support of ETH Zurich, developed models that attempt to show the developments in snow reliability and snowmaking possibilities in 23 mountain regions in Switzerland.
