Despite millions in funding from the state: a large ski resort in Germany files for bankruptcy. “We now lack the money to get through the low-sales summer months,” says the managing director of the Silbersattel ski arena in Steinach.

In Philippsreut (Freyung-Grafenau district), the Bavarian ski center Mitterdorf recently canceled its season several weeks earlier than planned. South of the border, the ski area in Bad Leonfelden, Austria, suffered a similar fate.