Path tourism is booming: The new winners on the German-Austrian border!

Path tourism is booming: The new winners on the German-Austrian border!

In the border region between Germany and Austria, the new trend of deposit tourism has caused excitement. Several cases show how Austrian citizens benefit from the higher deposit amounts in their country: the deposit for a box with 20 empty bottles could be a maximum of 3.90 euros higher if it is returned in Austria. While the deposit amounts in Germany have remained unchanged for years, Austria has increased the deposit from 9 to 20 cents. For many, the new phenomenon is equivalent to a lucrative business, and the large beverage manufacturers and trade should be the suffering parties. This reports Die Krone .

cross -border business sense

Consumers from Germany seem to have become tourists for deposit bottles. A beer supply is shoveled across the border to encourage the higher deposit in Austria, and this causes unrest among the Bavarian breweries and dealers. Many reports from the industry show that entire trailers are transported across the border with boxes. "We saw that catastrophic in the first few days," says Christian Thiel from the Schönramer brewery in Petting. "People try to enrich themselves at the expense of the brewery and trade," he added, while retailers are facing an additional challenge due to the new situation, since they are only allowed to take back household quantities of deposit bottles, which leads to another complication in this extraordinary phenomenon. These facts were made by Merkur

Not only the breweries are concerned: the Bavarian brewery association also notes that deposit tourism could trigger a response to the long -discussed increase in pikes in Germany that has not been updated for decades. Experts warn that an increase in the deposit in Germany could bring numerous challenges, including the perception of price increases by consumers and possible empties. The debate about an increase is re -lived up by the situation at the border and could finally lead to changes. For the breweries, this is a wake -up call to think about the possible reactions to the phenomenon and at the same time increase motivation to return deposit bottles, which was targeted as the goal of the pikes in Austria.