GAST

Best Practice

Region
Several alpine regions
In the territorial limits of the Alpine Convention.
Country
ch (Switzerland)
Term 2008-11-19
Topics

Short description
GAST is a network of several car-free Swiss touristy communities that promotes car-free recreation and holiday experiences in alpine resorts. The resorts commit themselves to nine decided quality criteria, which are exminded regularly. Members of GAST are Bettmeralp VS, Braunwald GL, Riederalp VS, Rigi LU/SZ, Saas-Fee VS, Stoos SZ, Wengen-Mürren BE, Zermatt VS.

Project executive
GAST (Gemeinschaft Autofreier Tourismusorte) is a network of several car-free Swiss communities.


Participants
Switzerland Tourism and the respective car-free communities: Bettmeralp VS, Braunwald GL, Riederalp VS, Rigi LU/SZ, Saas-Fee VS, Stoos SZ, Wengen-Mürren BE, Zermatt VS.
Activities
Activities differ from community to community. Detailed information on products and services is provided on the respective communities' homepages: http://www.bettmeralp.ch -- http://www.braunwald.ch -- http://www.riederalp.ch -- http://www.rigi.ch -- http://www.saas-fee.ch -- http://www.stoos.ch -- http://www.wengen-muerren.ch -- http://www.zermatt.ch
Source of information
Competition
Participant at the 2005 Future in the Alps competition
Homepage
http://www.gast.org

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