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Thomas Balbierer
Simone Zehnpfennig reacts with a mixture of pity and disbelief when asked whether there is still hope to get hold of a mountain hut in the Allgäu for Christmas or New Year’s Eve at short notice. “Are you serious?” Asks the spokeswoman for Allgäu GmbH, the regional tourism marketer, on the phone right at the beginning of the conversation. One might as well have asked for evidence of the Christ Child’s existence, their reaction might have been similar. No, this is not a joke call, the question is actually meant seriously, after all, in the second winter of the pandemic, many spontaneous vacationers dream of a few cozy vacation days in a romantic, snow-covered mountain hut somewhere in the Alps.