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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.
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 beyond.
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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