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PETER SCHNEIDER
After record numbers in previous years with more than a million visitors each, there was a historic drop in the region’s top attraction in 2020. The railway company announced Tuesday that fewer tourists came to the Jungfraujoch for the last time in the decade. 1980. Tour traffic had stopped for 83 days since mid-March due to the prescribed closure.
The increased demand from domestic guests could not compensate for the loss of international tourists. Due to the change in the number of visitors, the numbers fluctuated strongly due to the weather and the deployment of personnel and rolling stock had to adapt to the weather conditions on short notice.
In the “Mountains of Adventure” segment, the number of visitors dropped slightly less than in the Jungfraujoch. The Firstbahn, for example, carried 42 percent fewer guests than the previous year. With the Harderbahn the minus was 57 percent and with the Mürrenbahn the frequencies were cut in half.
The current 2020/2021 winter season will also be influenced by the development of the corona pandemic, according to the report. Due to ongoing uncertainties, sales of the regional “Top4 ski passes” increased to 28,400 from 42,200 in the previous year despite the opening of the entire V-Bahn project declined. By the end of December, the Jungfrau ski region had sold a total of 153,700 tickets, 7 percent less than the previous year.
