Snow phone
As Snow telephone are telephone services referred to the disclosure of information for the tourist winter sports serve. These are usually telephone announcements that are played to the participant when they are called; Personal advice is also possible. The operators of snow phones are often tourist information offices or ski lift operators . Snow phones are particularly widespread in winter sports areas, and all relevant ski areas are often covered.
Typically, the announcements contain information about snow depths and weather conditions as well as the availability and opening times of winter sports such as ski lifts, cross-country trails , hiking trails or tobogganing slopes. They can also contain event information. In most cases, snow telephones are geared towards being up-to-date; for this purpose, the announcements are adapted as required, often daily in the high season . Outside the winter sports season, the services are usually no longer supported.
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Hoy: Winter tourism in Saxony's low mountain ranges. Marketing strategies for adapting to the consequences of climate change. Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2008, p. 44