Having been recognised as among the many finest anyplace on earth by the World Ski Awards, Breaking Journey Information right here chats with Anton Bodner, chairman, and Christian Wörister, board member, at Bergbahn AG Kitzbühel, in regards to the prestigious honour
Breaking Journey Information: Congratulations in your victory on the World Ski Awards, with Kitzbühel having been recognised because the World’s Best Ski Resort Company by voters. How does it really feel to have received?
Anton Bodner: World Ski Awards is the one international initiative to recognise, reward and have fun excellence in ski tourism by voters.
Launched in 2013, World Ski Awards goals to drive up requirements throughout the ski tourism trade by rewarding the organisations that are leaders of their area.
Votes are forged by professionals working throughout the ski trade and by the general public (ski tourism shoppers).
Due to this fact it’s a nice honour for us, and we’re very glad to have received the World Ski Award for the seventh time in difficult occasions like these.
This honour wouldn’t be potential with out the extraordinary work from all our colleagues throughout the entire yr – so first off all we need to thank our workers and our companions.
BTN: That is the seventh consecutive time you will have been honoured on this approach – how do the trophies and titles enable you to promote the vacation spot world wide?
Christian Wörister: The World Ski Award was developed in response to overwhelming demand from the ski trade for a program that was truthful and clear; a program with a mission to function the definitive benchmark of excellence, and to assist to foster a brand new period of development in ski tourism.
World Ski Award has created a spread of particular promotional instruments to allow winners to maximise the impression of their World Ski Awards victory.
We use this presents in all technique of promoting to strengthen our distinctive place world wide.
BTN: Kitzbühel is likely one of the most well-known ski tourism locations in Europe, if not the world. Simply what’s on supply on the vacation spot that makes it so particular?
CW: Kitzbühel is essentially the most legendary sports activities city within the Alps with over 125 years of profitable snowboarding historical past.
Kitzbühel – together with the vacation villages of Reith, Aurach and Jochberg – is thought worldwide as a winter vacation vacation spot with custom and extraordinary appeal.
Straightforward accessibility, lengthy winters, a excessive snow assure, a variety of sporting actions, distinctive occasions such because the well-known Hahnenkamm Race and the very best degree of consolation characterise the capital of winter sports activities.
The KitzSki space in Kitzbuehel and Kirchberg boasts 233 kilometres of completely ready pistes, together with 15 valley runs, for newcomers, common vacation skiers and superior winter sports activities fanatics.
With our 57 cutting-edge lifts, we’re one among Austria’s largest cable automotive corporations.
Our cable automobiles supply the very best degree of consolation, lots of them together with heated seats – they’re nice, trendy and stress-free.
Moreover we function greater than 1,100 snowmaking machines to ensure excellent snow circumstances throughout the entire season that are fed by ten water reservoirs.
BTN: How would you describe the temper going into the 2020 ski season? Has information of a possible vaccine for Covid-19 lifted spirits?
AB: Really we’ve got a lockdown in Austria in addition to in lots of different European international locations.
So the chance for folks to return to ski in Kitzbuehel is definitely fairly low till Christmas.
We give attention to intensifying our advertising and marketing actions in Austria and in south Germany since we’re satisfied, that as quickly as it’s accredited by the federal government, folks will pack their baggage and spend their holidays snowboarding in Austria.
We take the well being of our visitors and workers very severely.
Bergbahn Kitzbühel has taken all crucial measures and actions to guard the well being of its prospects in keeping with the regulatory necessities referring to the event of Covid-19.
Skiers can have extra space on the ticket workplaces, within the winter cable automobiles and lifts, inns and mountain eating places.
Protecting masks can be found at every ticket workplace to cowl mouth and nostril throughout the elevate experience.
Dispensers of sanitiser are additionally obtainable there.
Final however not least after all all of us hope for a vaccine towards Covid-19 throughout the subsequent six month.
Extra Data
Discover out extra about visiting Kitzbühel on the official website.
Photographs: Michael Werlberger
