Austria has traditionally suffered in comparisons with France – you’ll be familiar with the some of the arguments:
It’s too low and the ski areas are too small
Austria v. France
But Austria has gone on the front foot with this well-thought out infographic, focussing on season length, resort height, glaciers and snow parks.
Evidently you could pick different resorts and show a completely different story, but that’s what makes this infographic so impressive – and likely to be influential in shifting opinions.
Robert de Niro’s waiting (talking German)
Interestingly, this infographic is hosted on visual.ly, where it has been posted by an anonymous user called ‘RobertdeNiro’.
We’re guessing that Austria wants to avoid any fisticuffs with France at WTM next month…
6 comments
Bertie bassett says:
Oct 22, 2014
Since when gas there been summer skiing in la plague, not for quite a few years I think
iain says:
Oct 23, 2014
Good spot Bertie
GlobeSkieur says:
Oct 23, 2014
Some data are totally crap:
– La Plagne offers summer skiing? Not the case anymore since 2003!
– Tignes closed in October? Come on, they just reopened on last October 4th.
– Portes du Soleil have lifts over 3000m? Nice try…
– Travel time from Geneva Airport: WTF? 😀
And so on…
iain says:
Oct 24, 2014
Nice work Jerome. Clearly some errors here but the general principle is what I like
Francesco says:
Oct 27, 2014
Datas compared here are a non-sense regarding ski holidays:
– why should a skier pay attention to the number of medals won by athletes from both countries to choose his holidays?
– do I really want to eat a McDonalds combo meal when I am in a ski resort…
– why talking about snowparks, as there is no clear definition of what they meant by snowpark? (only 50 snowparks in France???)
– surprisingly, no elements of prices of ski pass and accomodation (I’m talking about accomodation in general, not only hotels by the way!) are displayed here. That would be probably more useful.
– nothing about the size of the ski areas??
– nothing about the age and confort of the ski lifts (on which Austria would win big time!)
iain says:
Oct 27, 2014
All good points Francesco – but I guess the point of this infographic is to show Austria in a positive light.