WC: 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships - Environmental Inpact Survey

[SimonR]

Hello everyone,

I am currently working on my diploma thesis concerning the reduction of the environmental impact of the upcoming 2026 Ice Hockey World Championship, which will take place in Switzerland, in Zürich and Fribourg.

In order to better understand the habits, preferences, and ecological awareness of spectators at such events, I invite you to participate in an anonymous survey. Your responses will be invaluable in helping me analyze spectator behaviors and explore sustainable solutions for sporting events.

It will only take a few minutes, and your answers will be completely anonymous.

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Click here to participate in the survey

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[Faterson]

"Ecological awareness" is a luxury for the rich, I'm afraid. So, exactly the thing one would associate with a country like Switzerland.

Good luck with your thesis, anyway, and I filled out the questionnaire.

(Won't be attending the tournament in person, have only attended domestic ones, and if I attended one abroad, it would likely be one in a more affordable location than Switzerland. I'm afraid "environmental awareness" would have zero importance in the minds of my compatriots when deciding whether to attend an event or not.)

 

[Albatros]

"Ecological awareness" is a luxury for the rich, I'm afraid.

I wouldn't agree, even if you can't afford to visit the tournament at all you can still be aware of your non-participation being a non-negative thing ecologically.

 

[Faterson]

Not if I fire up my 7-foot TV screen to watch the games, eh, while eating lots of hamburgers?

(Speaking figuratively – my TV screen is a lot smaller, and I hate hamburgers. But I knew a Swiss guy here in Slovakia who was completely desperate & was pulling his hair out over how dismissive, even contemptuous typical Slovaks are towards environmental concerns. But that's just the way it is: if you're struggling to make ends meet on a monthly basis, ecology will be the last thing on your mind.)

 

[Fil]

Not if I fire up my 7-foot TV screen to watch the games, eh, while eating lots of hamburgers?

(Speaking figuratively – my TV screen is a lot smaller, and I hate hamburgers. But I knew a Swiss guy here in Slovakia who was completely desperate & was pulling his hair out over how dismissive, even contemptuous typical Slovaks are towards environmental concerns. But that's just the way it is: if you're struggling to make ends meet on a monthly basis, ecology will be the last thing on your mind.)

Hamburgers are yummy in my czech tummy

 

[Faterson]

Hamburgers are yummy in my czech tummy

Czech tummies don't give a damn about ecology, either, so that's understandable.

Is swilling beer round the clock eco-friendly or not? If not, Switzerland would do well to discourage Czech fans from visiting, or otherwise the OP's diploma thesis will turn out to be a futile exercise in unsustainable theory.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I go to nearly every WC--

In the case of the Swiss, nothing has been built. So it just the amount of people who go to the games, where they stay and what they do and of course how they get there.

Swiss hotels are always expensive. So depending where team Canada plays I will either be staying near the French or German border taking a train to the games

 

[Jumptheshark]

Started doing the questionnaire and it failed one of my sniff tests.

it is pushing a vegan/vegetarian agenda leaving out the impact that 85% of stuff that are part of either diet are "helped" in many countries. Too many questions on what you eat for my liking

 

[Faterson]

it is pushing a vegan/vegetarian agenda leaving out the impact that 85% of stuff that are part of either diet are "helped" in many countries.

I don't understand this sentence of yours, but the food questions in the questionnaire were the easiest for me to answer. (Positively!) If all that anyone ever needed to do to "save the environment" was to restrict oneself to vegetarian food, I'd be all for it. (I'm no vegetarian myself, but I like the idea... in theory.)

 

[Jumptheshark]

I don't understand this sentence of yours, but the food questions in the questionnaire were the easiest for me to answer. (Positively!) If all that anyone ever needed to do to "save the environment" was to restrict oneself to vegetarian food, I'd be all for it. (I'm no vegetarian myself, but I like the idea... in theory.)

I am an environmentalist and I find flaws in how the questions are worded and how much emphases was put on food.

Over the years I have been part of several surveys like that and one of the first questions was if you are planning to attend the event how are you getting the country if you do not live in the country? For a questionnaire of that size and overall arc? too many food questions