page_title: Skyway Monte Bianco
section_title: Tourism impact
hierarchical_section_title: Skyway Monte Bianco / Tourism impact
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Panorama del Monte Bianco da Punta Helbronner (terrazza panoramica della nuova funivia Skyway).
context_page_description: Skyway Monte Bianco is a cable car in the Alps, linking the Italian town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost of 110 million euros, and is considered to be the world's most expensive cable car installation.
context_section_description: A corresponding, but much older cable car on the northern side of the Mont Blanc massif, which ascends from Chamonix to the Aiguille du Midi, attracts around 500,000 people per annum, with an annual turnover of 16 million euros. Previously the older Funivia Monte Bianco attracted 100,000 visitors per annum, but the new Skyway Monte Bianco was forecast to attract some 300,000 visitors per year.
  Concerns were expressed by environmental organisations, both before and after the Skyway's construction. These centred around the 'disproportionate scale' and very high impact of the development on the mountain environment, as well as the commoditisation of the high alpine environment.
caption: View across Mont Blanc massif from Skyway Monte Bianco's panoramic terrace on Punta Helbronner
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