Ski resorts like the Andermatt Swiss Alps resort in central Switzerland are offering summer activities to bring in revenue and offset a warmer winter. Photo: ReutersThe prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change. Arosa has reinvented itself before - moving to winter tourism in the 1930s after decades as a health resort for tuberculosis patients. Arosa has reinvented itself before - moving to winter tourism in the 1930s after decades as a health resort for Tb patients. Consolidation of winter tourism is on the horizon, with overnight stays in bigger Swiss resorts up 1% in the decade to 2015, but down 17% in smaller ones.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 16, 2019 06:56 UTC