Planning hut tours: your experience

We want to understand how hikers plan hut tours and what makes it tiring. The survey takes about 3 minutes. All questions are optional except the first.

1. How often do you go on hut tours (with an overnight stay)? Rarely or never About once a year 2–3 times a year More often

2. How many nights do your hut tours usually last? 1 night 2–3 nights 4 or more nights

3. What do you use to plan your tours? (select all that apply) Komoot Outdooractive alpenvereinaktiv Hut websites Books or maps Friends or family Other

4. Tell us briefly about your last hut tour: how did you plan it?

5. What was the most annoying or time-consuming part of planning?

6. How do you judge whether a tour is too difficult for you (or your group)?

7. Has a hut you wanted ever been fully booked? Never Sometimes Often

8. If so, what did you do? (select all that apply) Chose another date Chose another hut Joined the waiting list Kept checking again Called the hut Gave up on the tour Other

9. Have you ever booked two huts or dates just to be safe? Yes No Prefer not to say

10. Have you ever booked a hut by email or phone? No Yes, it went well Yes, but the reply was slow Yes, but I got no reply

11. If you could change one thing about planning hut tours, what would it be?

12. What would help you most? (up to 2) An alert when beds free up at a fully booked hut Planning a multi-day route where every night has free beds A map of all huts with their availability Suggestions for alternatives when a hut is full Easy requests to huts without online booking Recent reports from other hikers about the trail and huts An overview of hut tours with difficulty Other

13. Have you ever paid for a hiking app (e.g. Komoot Premium)? No Yes

14. How old are you? (optional) Under 25 25–39 40–59 60 or older

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