– Season all year round? – “Most hoteliers don’t want that”
Switzerland Tourism is beating the drum to attract travelers in autumn too. The ultimate dream: a year-round season. But the hotel operators are divided.
Published today at 12:09 p.m
“Keeping it open all year round would be a problem for a family business like ours,” says hotelier Lukas Kalbermatten (center of the picture). He guides guests from his Hotel Edelweiss in Blatten im Lötschental through the village.
Photo: Andrea Soltermann
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It sounds like an appeal, which the head of Switzerland Tourism, Martin Nydegger, made in July in an article in the “Hotel Revue” in a fictitious dialogue with a hotelier: “Keep all of our hotels on site open for the few autumn guests? Full operation in all restaurants in October? ‘It’s not possible, Nydegger!’ Yes, yes, dear hotel business, if we do it cleverly, it will work!”
2024-10-12 10:10:00