The study was commissioned by Future Mountain International as an AlpNet research project and presented at the 2016 theAlPS Conference in Innsbruck. It was developed by the three project partners: MCI Tourism, the German Sport University Cologne, and EURAC Research.
After screening over 290 documents, 33 experts from academia and the industry were surveyed using a Delphi study on the future of winter tourism in the Alps.
With 386 million commercial overnight stays and an additional 126 million non-commercial overnight stays, the Alps represent one of the world’s most important tourism destinations. This means that one in every seven overnight stays in the European Union takes place in the Alpine region. In total, there are 7.5 million commercial beds available. However, there are significant differences among the individual Alpine countries.