Austria's ski resorts at a glance

EVERYTHING STAYS DIFFERENT. This is the motto by which snowboard producers express their creativity – increasingly outside the established winter sports industry.

In two years, Crans-Montana will be able to present itself as host – a delegation visited Saalbach and collected positive impressions.

It is not only the ride up with the brand new 10-seater Rohrmoos I cable car in the Planai-Hochwurzen ski area that shows that the technology here is always kept at the cutting edge.

The maintenance requirements of the most important but most inconspicuous piece of equipment are often underestimated: the ski binding.