Vaz/Obervaz - Tourism

Tourism

The rise of skiing as a sport considerably promoted the creation of health resorts in the then recently established Lenzerheide and Valbella. They hesitated a long time in promoted tourism, and showed themselves, to this end, as less accessible than the populations of other health resorts. The development of tourism in Engadin and Davos was a stimulus and encouragement to establish a health resort in Vaz/Obervaz. The first regular and successful Ski-course in Lenzerheide was finished in 1903. The similar success of the repetition during the next year, suddenly made Lenzerheide well known as an outstanding ski area. In the following years a pleasing increase in the number of visitors prompted the building of new hotels and the continual improvement of the tourism infrastructure. The beginning of tourist development was marked by the construction of a Funi track (a Funi was a mechanism by which two carriages on skids pulled each other up and down the mountain) between Val Sporz and Tgantieni in 1936.