Pascal Jenny

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Pascal Jenny as Tourism Director of Arosa (2018)

Pascal Jenny (born March 23, 1974 ) is a former Swiss handball player and today's tourism expert .

Sports career

During his active career, Jenny played at the clubs TV Suhr , Kadetten Schaffhausen and Grasshopper Club Zurich . In total, the winger played 348 games in National League A , in which he scored 1,124 goals.

Pascal Jenny played a total of 73 international matches (118 goals) for the Swiss national handball team . He took part in the 2006 European Championships with the Swiss national team.

Tourism Director

Since 2008 Jenny has been the tourism director in the sports and holiday resort of Arosa , where his great-great-grandfather August Jenny was the very first spa director from 1903 to 1910. In this role he is responsible for the organization and implementation of the Arosa Humor Festival together with the artistic director Frank Baumann .

Pascal Jenny is the initiator of the Arosa Bear Sanctuary , which was approved by the Arosa electorate in autumn 2016, six years after the first idea.

In 2016, Arosa Tourism's “event strategy”, largely shaped by Jenny, was awarded the Swiss Milestone Tourism Prize in the “Innovation” category.

At the beginning of 2017, Pascal Jenny was nominated as “ Bündner of the year 2016” by Southeastern Switzerland . Of the 16,550 votes cast by the readership of the Südostschweiz web portal , 14% went to Jenny, making him 3rd out of 10 nominees.

In 2018, Jenny also took third place in the vote for “ Aargauer of the Year”.

The business magazine Bilanz counts Pascal Jenny among the 100 most important personalities of the Swiss economy due to his touristic innovation and implementation strength.

Web links

Commons : Pascal Jenny  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Pascal Jenny ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Eternal goalscorer league of the NLA / SHL ( Memento from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), as of May 31, 2009
  3. ↑ handball.ch Profile: Pascal Jenny ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 20, 2014
  4. ↑ Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1850-1907) , vol. 1, self-published Danuser, Arosa 1997, p. 201 ff.
  5. ^ Ruedi Homberger, Andri Peer: Arosa - A colored picture book , Ra-Verlag, Rapperswil around 1975, p. 22.
  6. ↑ The bears will soon be stepping in Arosa. In: www.suedostschweiz.ch. November 27, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Arosa wins “Milestone” for innovation in tourism. In: www.blick.ch. November 16, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Leonie Barandun-Alig is the “Bündner of the Year”. In: www.suedostschweiz.ch. January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Award ceremony in a new look : High bar European champion Oliver Hegi is “Aargauer of the Year” 2018. In: www.aargauerzeitung.ch. December 2, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Aroser Zeitung of December 19, 2014, p. 13.
  11. ↑ Who is who of the Swiss economy: Pascal Jenny, Director Arosa Tourism. In: www.bilanz.ch. December 2014, accessed February 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Jenny, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss handball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1974