Mayrhofen Ski Resort

One of the world's leading ski resorts, Mayrhofen ski resort is a lovely, comprehensive ski town of picturesque Tyrolean architecture and beautiful valley views.

Mayrhofen has a long history as a tourist resort, partly for mountain sports, including summer climbing and hiking, that dates back more than a century. Winter sports development has been a little more recent, with the first ski lifts installed in 1954. In modern times, Mayrhofen's comparatively low altitude may be a concern if global warming projections prove correct, but the lifts go very high and the slopes have extensive snow-making coverage, so long as it's cold enough.

The resort is especially popular, year round, with the British and German markets, along with a large number of Dutch visitors. Less than 10% of guests are Austrians. The constant flow of tourist business has helped Mayrhofen ski resort create excellent tourism infrastructure, which many other ski areas that rely on only three or four months a year of steady income, cannot match.