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Hintertux,
Austria |
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The skiing resorts that comprise
the Tux Valley
are
not bastions of sleek or cradles of chic. They are
Austrian ski resorts in the traditional sense. They were
built on available natural assets in that they were
nurtured slowly and carefully from traditional family run
houses and pensions into a
collection of smaller resorts combined in a
marketing sense and with a single ski pass into
one neatly run entry. The combined greatest
natural asset was not the imposing glacier at Hintertux, but the ability to create a world
class entity while at the same time maintaining
small mountain town style and tradition. |
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And
although accommodation and facilities have taken on a world
standard facade over the years, the area still remains unchanged.
The Tux continues to be traditional and natural and where
sophistication and five star luxury is not on the menu, first
class accommodation and real value definitely is.
Tux in
Zillertal is a ski resort first and foremost.
And make no mistake, the big natural resource
at the end of the valley, the glacier at
Hintertux, is what this whole way of life has
been built around.
The height of
most of the villages in this valley precludes
being described as "picture postcard" stuff.
It's too high and too untamed for that. Raw
beauty would be a more apt description. There
is no jet set shopping, no claim to hosting
the grand celebrities of the world. Still the
area continues to be indecently popular with
European skiers of all abilities. Even more so
now, what with the super ski pass reaching
down the Ziller Valley, to Mayrhofen and
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There a few
other ski entries in Europe that can boast as
much as this one, and few others have earned
the extent of popularity that The Tux has from
its immediate European neighbours. The area
delivers the goods.
If year round
action is your cup of tea, and skiing,
mountain sports, tennis, and other madly
active pursuits are your passions, then read
on. We will use the space available to make an
introduction to, or further your acquaintance
with, a ski area which in the past was a rose
known by another name. Tuxertal.
Why the name
change? Hey, stuff happens. Things change. A
change in the name of a ski area is no biggie.
Tuxertal is now called Tux in Zillertal. Live
with it.
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