Title: Tourism - Switzerland - Climatechangepost.com
Headings: 
Switzerland
Tourism Switzerland
Tourism in numbers - Europe
Tourism in numbers - Switzerland
Tourism in numbers - The Alps
Vulnerabilities – In general
Vulnerabilities - Trends in the past
Vulnerabilities – Projections for the future - the Alps
Vulnerabilities – Projections for the future - Switzerland
Adaptation strategies – In general
Adaptation strategies - Switzerland
Examples of shut down of ski resorts
Adaptation costs - Switzerland
Barriers to adaptation - Switzerland
References

Content: The slump in the hotel and holiday-apartment trade was less pronounced, as they also accommodate non-skiers. Hotel rooms and holiday apartments also tend to be booked quite a long time in advance. The question does arise, however, as to how long tourists will remain loyal to a location and keep returning to it if they are repeatedly confronted with inadequate snow conditions (1). The experience acquired by Swiss ski resorts shows that a ski resort can be considered snow-reliable if, in 7 out of 10 winters, skiing is possible on at least 100 days between December 1 and April 15 (2). It is estimated that the snowline, as well as the line of natural snow-reliability, will rise by 150 m with 1°C warming (6). On this basis, climate change could result in a 150 m, 300 m and 600 m increase in the altitude of the natural snow-reliability for 1, 2 and 4°C of warming (5). The duration of snow cover is expected to decrease by several weeks for each °C of temperature increase in the Alps region at middle elevations (14). At the most sensitive elevation in the Austrian Alps (600 m in winter and 1400 m in spring) and with no snowmaking adaptation considered, a 1°C rise leads to four fewer weeks of skiing days in winter and six fewer weeks in spring (15). A 2°C warming with no precipitation change would reduce the seasonal snow cover at a Swiss Alpine site by 50 days/yr, and with a 50% increase in precipitation by 30 days (16). Vulnerabilities – Projections for the future - the Alps
A recent Europe-wide assessment has identified increasing losses in winter tourism due to reduced snow cover and the increased exposure of settlements and infrastructure to natural hazards as the primary vulnerabilities to climate change in the Alps (5).