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Tourists mug for a friend's photograph on the streets of Zermatt.
Zermatt grows from 5 thousand to 20 thousand people from tourism in high season. There is a tension between welcoming the tourists, which drives the economy, and yet limiting the impact. Zermatt bans cars from the street—visitors take a train or tax from a nearby town and the streets are filled mostly with foot traffic except a few buses.

Copyright: MELISSA FARLOW
Image Size: 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
Keywords: alps (switzerland), cameras, clowning, couples, europe, geography, human actions and reactions, mountains, pedestrians, people, photographers, photographic equipment, ridges, rock, switzerland, tourists and tourism, zermatt
Contained in galleries: Alps_National Geographic magazine 2/2006

Tourists mug for a friend's photograph on the streets of Zermatt.<br />
Zermatt grows from 5 thousand to 20 thousand people from tourism in high season. There is a tension between welcoming the tourists, which drives the economy, and yet limiting the impact. Zermatt bans cars from the street—visitors take a train or tax from a nearby town and the streets are filled mostly with foot traffic except a few buses.

Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography