Ski Amadé

The Ski Ski amadé with 270 ski lifts and cable cars one of the largest ski areas in Europe. It comprises a total of 25 places, all located in the Austrian provinces of Salzburg and Styria.

History

End of the 1980s, mountain railways and tourism organizations joined forces in the entire region Pongau ( Salzburg). First, there was a mutual recognition of lift tickets, and later an advertising community. In 2000, 270 lifts and 25 municipalities joined together and installed the Ski amadé civil law, established in Radstadt.

Contractual basis for the collaboration of lift and cable car companies is a written cooperation and sales distribution agreement. This covers not only all regions combined ski pass and the related decision-making, control and revenue sharing issues, but prohibits the individual ski resorts also offer ski passes or lift tickets for the individual regions. The cooperation agreement has also provided for small ski areas a central pricing.

During the growth phase was found in a decision of 10 November 2003 by the Cartel Court, " that the collusion of prices by the members of the Amade 'ski [ ... ], the agreement on the local area for which the cards are valid, and the ban on the issuance or actual non- supply of tickets for the lifts, only individual regions within the Amade 'ski is subject to the Competition Act. " amadé the Labour and Ski have subsequently agreed in negotiations to sign the ski to the Cartel Court. The agreement scoring provides that ski amadé releases the pricing of day tickets from the ski season 2004/ 05.

Ski amadé made ​​great promotional efforts in recent years and is also often present in the media, if not always positive, as the coverage of the high-price policy and the antitrust allegations show. In several lawsuits, the company in Austria tried to gain domain amade.at, this claim for relief were dismissed for lack of presence of domain grabbing. In Germany, the ski resort advertises with the slogan Live action - in Ski Amade. The advertising song comes from the Austrian band Opus and Life is called live, which is a one hit wonder in 1985.

Scope

Ski amadé and its partner regions serve a total of about 760 km of slopes ( 356 slopes ), of which 90 % ( 684 km ) are artificial snow. These are 270 lifts and cable cars (47 gondolas, 90 chairlifts, 81 drag lifts, 52 lifts ) are available, with a total production capacity of 365,000 persons / hour.

The partner regions have 94,199 beds in 4,985 accommodation establishments ( including 260 ski huts and mountain restaurants), with 1.3 million arrivals. Thus, the organization almost 10% of Austria's beds ( about 8 % of farms ), and about a third of all arrivals in the winter tourism sector in Austria.

Directly employed are at the partner companies 1,400 employees, including 550 all year. The company itself has 170 employees.

Ski resorts, ski resorts and member communities

Ski Region Salzburg Sportwelt

In Salzburg Pongau Salzburg Sportwelt ski region, to which the communities Altenmarkt / Zauchensee, Eben, Filzmoos, Flachau, Radstadt in Ennspongau and Wagrain and Kleinarl in Wagrainertal / Kleinarltal, St. Johann is situated in the Salzach Valley, and Goldegg belong. The ski resorts in the region are:

In the Radstadt Tauern:

• Hahnbaum lifts St. Johann (650-1200 m)
• Wagrain Ski Area ( mountain railways Wagrain, 850-2000 m: Saukarkopf, Sonntagskogel / Grafenberg, and Wagrainer height), since the winter of 2013/14 is the Grafenberg connected to the Griessenkareck by an aerial tramway
• Snow space Flachau (827-2000 m: Saukarkopf / Griesskareck )
• St. Johann- Pongau (800-1850 m: Sonntagskogel and Gernkogel ) called the latter three formerly Three Valleys ski area of ​​Flachau, Wagrain, St. Johann
• Skiparadies Zauchensee - Flachauwinkl (1000-2188 m: Gamskopf, and Smoke head, Roßkopf )
• Shuttle Flachauwinkl -Kleinarl (1000-1980 m: Mooskopf )

• Radstadt- Altenmarkt (855-1571 m: Kemahdhöhe )

In the Salzburg Slate Alps three smaller areas:

• Monte Popolo Ski Area (plane, 862-1612 m: Tannkoppen / Roßbrand )
• Filzmoos (1057-1600 m: Roßbrand, and Grossberg )
• Goldegg (850 - 1200 m: Goldegger book mountain, in the mountains above Dientner Schwarzach )

The Salzburger Sportwelt has 250 km of slopes, with a total of 18 gondolas or cable cars, 36 chair lifts - and 44 drag and practice lifts. The target audience is broad. Flachau ( Hermann Maier World Cup route), Altenmarkt ( Kälberloch ) and Zauchensee ( Weltcuparena ) are world-class resort, in Altenmarkt the freestyle skiing World Cup was held in 1993.

Schladming -Dachstein

The ski area in the top Enns includes Schladming, Groebming, house in the Enns Valley, Pruggern, Ramsau am Dachstein, Rohrmoos -Untertal, Radstadt and Pichl / Mandling organized with some other communities in the Schladming -Dachstein. The ski areas are:

In the Schladming Tauern:

• Reiteralm mountain railways ( Pichl, 800-1860 m)
• Planai Hochwurzen ( Schladming, 745-1894 m)
• Hauser Kaibling (House, 728-2015 m) It comprises 109 lifts, including 7 cable cars, 26 chairlifts, 44 drag lifts and rope tows. The slopes have a total length of 185 km, of which 65.5 are light, medium 104.6 and 11.6 km difficult. The longest valley run is the Hochwurzen FIS downhill run at 7.7 kilometers in length.
• Fageralm ( Radstadt, 930-1885 m; Fager ) 12 km of slopes with 2 chairlifts and five ski lifts
• Galster mountain (1000-1986 m: Kalteck ) 20 km of slopes with 1 cable car, 1 chair and 3 drag lifts

Dachsteinmassiv:

• Ramsau (1130-1636 m: Türlwand )
• Dachstein Glacier ( Ramsau, 2296-2700 m) comprising 22 km of slopes, 1 cable car, 2 chairlifts and 20 drag lifts. Dachstein Glacier is a summer ski area, with connections to the high altitude trails of the cross-country center Ramsau
• Stoderzinken ( Groebming, 1700-2048 m) 8 km of slopes, 4 lifts and cable cars

The region ranks among the top 5 ski regions of Austria, and by the alignment of annual world cup ski races ( since 1973 ) are known. In particular, the Night Race, a night slalom, with about 50,000 visitors one of the most visited ski events in the world. It is the venue for the world championships in alpine skiing (1982, planned in 2013 ), Nordic (1999) and Ski Mountaineering ( planned for 2012 ), as well as the Special Olympics 1993 Ski World Junior Championships in 1997.

Ski Gastein

The Gastein Valley (village Gastein, Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein ) has four ski resorts, which are not interconnected.

• Ski Schloßalm - Angertal- Stubnerkogel ( Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein 859-2300 m: High Forcella at the Türchlwand, and Stubnerkogel; Angertal to 1175 m )
• Sport Gastein (1584-2650 m: Kreuzkogel )
• Graukogellift ( Bad Gastein 1000 to 2246 m)
• Dorfgastein - Großarl (865-2027 m: Kreuzkogel )

The Gastein Valley ski resort has nearly 125 km of pistes, with a total of 11 cable cars, 14 chairlifts and 15 drag and practice lifts. Sport Gastein ( the Hohe Tauern National Park boundary zone ) for variants - skiers interesting. Well known are the three places for their Sportspa ( thermal baths, Brand: Ski, Mountains & Spa Gastein). On the Graukogellift the Alpine Ski World Championship was held in 1958.

Hochkönig

In the high- king area that are Mühlbach in Mühlbachtal, Tendered in Dientnertal and Maria Alm in the Urslau, is the Ski Skiing & Snowboarding. It includes the three ski areas that lead consistently to the south in the mountains Dientener ( grass mountains ), and are connected to each other:

• Mühlbach: Snow Mountain (860-1820 m), and high wedge on Hochkönigfuß ( Arthur House / Mitterbergalm, 1347-1580 m)
• Served: Wastlhöhe / Sunnhütte direction Mühlbach ( Kolmansegg, 1071-1750 m), Gabühel ( 1071-1634 m)
• Maria Alm: Aberg (802-1900 m), Gabühel ( Hinterthal, 1020-1634 m), as well as small areas Natrun, and Trail Riding

In the ski high king are 120 km of slopes, reached by 4 gondolas, 10 chairlifts and 19 drag lifts. Also, there are three snow parks. The area specified on the profile family vacation.

Ski Großarltal

In Großarltal the boroughs Großarl and Huettschlag. The ski area of the region is:

• Dorfgastein - Großarl (885-2027 m: Kreuzkogel )

The Großarl region with Dorfgastein 80 km of slopes, Großarl has 3 cable cars, 4 chairlifts and 2 surface lifts. Interesting is the valley of national park communities also for hikers, cross-country skiers and hikers, as the ski circuit only focused on one area.