Mountain sports guide in Salzburg threatens - petition fights for changes!

Mountain sports guide in Salzburg threatens - petition fights for changes!

In Austria, over 5,000 mountain sports guides work, and a fifth of which works in Salzburg. But the situation of these skilled workers is becoming increasingly under pressure. As the Secretary General of the Austrian Alpine Club, Clemens Matt, explains, the mountain sports guides have not been allowed to work independently since 2017. There are strict framework conditions and regulations that make working as a mountain sports guide much more complicated and more expensive. "The bureaucracy we have to do is amazing," said Matt. These regulations lead to price increases of up to 30 percent that ultimately have to bear customers, which endangers local competitiveness, as orf Salzburg reported.

These special legal requirements exist exclusively in Austria. This fears that experts are increasingly involved in mountain sports guides from abroad, but who do not have the necessary local knowledge. Another big problem is the far -reaching bureaucracy, which the mountain sports guides cannot be mastered. An online petition that has already been signed by around 10,000 people demands a change in change in the existing law to counteract this oppressive situation. The Salzburger Bergsportführerverband, as a legal representation of the mountain sports guides, is committed to the promotion and training of its members and strives to improve the conditions in mountain sports, as described on the association's website: