INTERLAKEN - Hotels in the Jungfrau region and across Graubuenden said 29 December occupancy was strong, with families mixing ski days and the kind of train travel that still had a few seats. Village snow remained patchy. Higher pistes did the work.
Restaurants that had closed for lack of cooks in January found enough staff for this week, which is how the labour market admits what it will not admit in a report.
January will be thinner
It always is, after the fireworks. Our year began with a nervous Oberland. It ends with full beds and the same staffing footnote. The footnote is the story that does not take a holiday.