Minimum standards of the regions

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Apart from the many other criteria & recommendations, we have summarised the most important minimum standards for cross-country ski & ski touring regions required by Cross Country Ski Holidays.

Standards of the cross-country ski regions

The region’s cross-country skiing network must include at least 25 km of traditional parallel tracks and skating trails incl. complete cross-country ski trail signage.
At least 3 km of the cross-country ski tracks must be equipped with an artificial snowmaking facility. Or a high-altitude cross-country ski track (at least 3 km in 1,000 m above sea level) must be available as an alternative.
Grooming of the cross-country ski tracks must be guaranteed according to snow conditions.
All cross-country ski tracks must have signposts that include directions, kilometre indications and overview maps.
At least one cross-country ski school (or ski school with cross-country ski instructor) as well as hire of cross-country ski equipment must be available in the region.
At least one service station for waxing and grinding of cross-country skis (e.g. sports shop) must be available in the region.
The network of cross-country ski tracks must be available in digital form on the region’s website.
Excellent infrastructure along the cross-country ski tracks (toilets, parking spaces, etc.)
Extensive information about cross-country skiing and "Winter sport away from the ski pistes" on the region’s website.

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Standards of the ski touring regions

At least 5 marked and well described suggestions for ski tours (incl. walking time, height difference, difficulty level, map and poss. GPS data)
At least 1 ski tour on regular pistes or in safe terrain (e.g. ski routes, secured paths, etc.)
Guided ski tours with professional mountain guides (for single persons or groups)
Relevant free information documents for guests
Rental of ski touring equipment

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Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
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accomSearchFilter	Saves the search settings	session	HTML	Website
toursSearchFilter	Saves the search settings	session	HTML	Website
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_pk_ref	Used to store the attribution information, the referrer initially used to visit the website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo
_pk_ses	Short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo
_pk_cvar	Short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo
_pk_hsr	Short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo

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_gaexp	Is set as a test to check whether the browser allows cookies to be set. Does not contain any identification features.	3 months	HTML	Google
_opt_utmc	This cookie stores information about which marketing campaign a user last came to the website.	1 day	HTML	Google
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_opt_awgid	This cookie is set when a user reaches the website by clicking on a Google advertisement. It contains information about which advertising campaign the clicked advertisement belongs to.	1 day	HTML	Google
_opt_awkid	This cookie is set when a user reaches the website by clicking on a Google advertisement. It contains information about the selection criteria on which the ad was shown, for example which keyword was booked with Google.	1 day	HTML	Google
_hjClosedSurveyInvites	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal pop-up. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown.	1 year	HTML	Hotjar
_hjDonePolls	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not reappear if it has already been filled in.	1 year	HTML	Hotjar
_hjMinimizedPolls	Hotjar cookie that is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the visitor navigates through your site.	1 year	HTML	Hotjar
_hjShownFeedbackMessage	Hotjar cookie that is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the visitor navigates to another page where it is set to show.	1 year	HTML	Hotjar
_hjid	Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.	1 year	HTML	Hotjar
_hjRecordingLastActivity	This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).	session	HTML	Hotjar
_hjTLDTest	When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.	session	HTML	Hotjar
_hjUserAttributesHash	User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.	session	HTML	Hotjar
_hjCachedUserAttributes	This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool.	session	HTML	Hotjar
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_hjIncludedInSample	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate Funnels. This is a session cookie which is destroyed when the user leaves the site.	session	HTML	Hotjar
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.	30 minutes	HTML	Hotjar

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
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_dc_gtm_--property-id--	Used by DoubleClick (Google Tag Manager) to help identify the visitors by either age, gender or interests.	2 years	HTML	Google
_fbp	Stores the unique visitor ID.	28 days	HTML	facebook
facebookPixel	If JavaScript is not enabled, this pixel initiates a connection to facebook.	none	Pixel	facebook
_fbc	Identifies browsers for the purpose of providing analytics services for advertising and websites	3 months	HTML	facebook
fr	Facebook's main advertising cookie; it is used to deliver advertisements and to measure and improve their relevance.	3 months	HTML	facebook
_pin_unauth	Verwendet von Pinterest, um die Nutzung der Dienste zu verfolgen.	12 months	HTML	pinterest