Publisher's Synopsis
Text in German. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Semmering was a fashionable hotspot for high society, but over the years it has been forgotten. But now a new flowering seems possible. For the first time, this book presents ideas that can accompany tourism in the Semmering as it sets off into the future. The area around the Semmering gained national importance as a noble holiday destination. The place has not been able to preserve this up to the present, as evidenced by the empty hotels. Changes in the areas of tourism, ecology and mobility are now planned in Semmering, and the number of guest beds will increase. This raises questions: How will the increasing traffic be managed in a healthy climate through the reopening of the hotels built at the beginning of the motorization era? What does the Semmering Base Tunnel mean for the World Heritage route over the mountain? And how can Semmering once again become the leading tourist resort in the Eastern Alps? 16 experts from the fields of tourism, culture, mobility and ecology deal with such questions in this anthology, which spans the arc from the past through a current inventory to the future. In addition to impulses for future tourism in Semmering, the book also drafts a tourism model for the future that focuses on ecology and climate-neutral mobility.
