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Davos is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. Davos is famous as the host to the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites, which is often referred to as simply Davos. It is also known as a winter sports town (where the annual Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament is played, hosted by local hockey team HC Davos). Its claim to fame derives from the fact that the microclimate in the high valley was deemed excellent by doctors and recommended for lung disease patients. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote an article about skiing in Davos in 1899. Davos is also the setting of Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), which takes place at a sanatorium. Davos is also featured in Tom Evslin's serialized novel, Hackoff.com, which was initially distributed via blog, making it a blook. Subsequently, Davos became famous as a ski resort, especially with citizens from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. After a peak in the 1970s and 1980s, the two-part city has re-established itself as a leading, yet less high-profile, tourist attraction. The five main ski areas are:
Pronunciation English-speaking broadcast journalists covering the WEF, along with many speakers at the Forum itself, commonly mispronounce the town's name by emphasizing the a and mispronouncing the o as to make the word rhyme with "moss", e.g. DAAH-voss; pronounced correctly, the emphasis is on the o, and rhymes with "verbose", e.g. da-VOSE (dävôs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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