Winter sports in danger: traffic jams on the Tauern highway ensures declines!

Winter sports in danger: traffic jams on the Tauern highway ensures declines!

In the last winter months, the construction sites on the A10 Tauern motorway provided chaos and put on the winter athletes. This reports the news portal Orf Salzburg that determines that day guests from Upper and Lower Austria and Vienna failed to stop. Wolfgang Hettegger, the CEO of the Snow Space Salzburg ski region, emphasizes that there were declines of over twelve percent. The economic consequences are serious: the region was said to be missing between one and a half and a half million euros due to the construction work. Nevertheless, the German visitors were able to partially compensate for the decline.

panoramic view from space: experience winter start globally

on December 21, 2023, the beginning of the winter, the one -year time -lapse analysis by NOAA marks the change of seasons in an impressive way. The time-lapse video, created by the Goes-Ost satellite, documents the changing weather conditions worldwide. Space scientist Brian Lada by Accuweather influenced. While the northern hemisphere tends to the sun, we enjoy summer, and when it turns away, it will be winter with longer nights.

With the winter solstice, the cold season begins not only for the northern hemisphere, but also the long journey from the dark. The sunlight is gradually increasing every day, which announces a positive turn for different regions. Such changes in nature should also be a ray of hope for the ski regions affected by the construction work, as the winter season wins on trip and hopefully bring visitors back.