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- Resource ID
- ff538304-d6f8-11ea-8e10-0050568ea38e
- Title
- Tourism intensity in Alpine municipalities
- Date
- Jan. 1, 2013, 8:52 a.m., Publication
- Abstract
- The intensity of tourism is usually defined by the number of beds in accommodation businesses per resident population For France the number of beds in second homes per inhabitant were considered in addition to the tourism intensity.
The spatial distribution of the tourism centres in the Alps follows the topography. They are often close to the main Alpine ridge. Municipalities in the lower Alpine regions are generally of low tourism intensity. Not surprisingly, regions of very high tourism intensity are mostly skiing areas. In Austria, this applies to well-known skiing destinations in the Alps, e.g. Ischgl or Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Kitzbühel, Zillertal, Stubai or Ötztal and to the Hohe and Niedere Tauern ridge. In France, where some of the skiing resorts are only sparsely populated, municipalities near ski resorts such as Tignes, Val d’Isère or Alpe d’Huez are characterised by a high or very high tourism intensity. The Dolomite mountain ridge and the Valle d’Aosta are respective examples for Italy. Here, Lago di Garda is one important non-skiing tourist destination. In Switzerland the tourism centres with the highest intensities are also connected to high Alpine areas, e.g. Adelboden or Lauterbrunn in the Berner Oberland or St. Moritz. As only beds in hotel businesses are statistically registered, tourism intensity is not as distinct here. The few places in German Alpine regions with high tourism intensity are Bad Hindelang and Oberstdorf in Oberallgäu as well as Ramsau near Berchtesgaden. In Slovenia, Kranjska Gora, the Triglav National Park area and the Cerkljansko area are the most important tourist destinations within the Alps.
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- Responsible
- AlpineConvention
- Point of Contact
- alpine.convention.atlas@gmail.com
- Purpose
- This map is published within the 4th Report on the state of the Alps (RSA4).
- Maintenance Frequency
- notPlanned
- Type
- vector
- Restrictions
- Some limitations apply to the access or use of the data
- License
- AC_Limited usage license
- Language
- eng
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- Supplemental Information
- Author: Institute for regional development and location management,
EURAC Data: STATISTIK AUSTRIA (2005), SFAO Sektion Tourismus (2003), Demograhy and Migration Section (2003), LfStaD (2004), IFEN (1999), Tourist beds (20002), Beds in second homes (1999). ISTAT (2003), AVVW abst. Statistik (2004), Statistic office of the Republic of Slovenia (2004).
Sources:
- Administrative boundaries: @Eurogeographic, 2004
National Border: ESRI
The layer can be accessed through WMS services at http://www.atlas.alpconv.org/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
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- x0: 3605539.000000000000000
- x1: 4471451.000000000000000
- y0: 1886482.375000000000000
- y1: 2428298.500000000000000
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:3034
- Keywords
- no keywords
- Category
- Tourism
- Regions
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Alps