Ski Resort and Snow News - July 2012
Tour Operator Offers Discounts for Military
Published : 31-Jul-2012 11:00
Tour operator Zenith Holidays (www.zenithholidays.co.uk) is offering a discount on all of its holidays to ski destinations next winter to serving military personnel.
The military discount delivers 5% off catered chalet holidays, 5% off lift passes and 25% of ski packs and is available all season to all resorts to active military personnel.
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Freestyle For All At Les 2 Alpes
Published : 30-Jul-2012 10:04
Les 2 Alpes have announced they'll be offering more for freestyle skiers and boarders this winter.
The French resort, which offers altitude glacier skiing and boarding, will extend its freestyle area and it will be adapted to offer families who want to learn and have fun more manageable challenges. This translates in to more moguls, jumps, a mini pipe and smaller rails.
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Results of Survey of 18000 Skiers Published
Published : 17-Jul-2012 10:12
A company called SPIKE which describes itself as a 'travel marketing consultancy' has compiled responses from 18,000 people on their ski holiday habits in what it claim it the largest consumer survey ever undertaken in the ski holiday market.
Among the SkiBase Reports findings were that mature skiers are spending as much time on the ski slopes as during the boom times of 2007/08 and effectively sustaining the current ski holiday market, with the number of new entrants to snowsports in decline.
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New Off Piste Ski Route for Gastein
Published : 16-Jul-2012 01:45
Austria's Gastein ski region has announced a new ski route named "Katstall" is being created for the 2012-13 ski season.
Ski routes are an increasingly popular idea, particularly in Austria and Switzerland. They are patrolled runs which appear on the piste map, usually in yellow, and give an 'off piste experience' being left ungroomed, but are still official pistes.
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Saas Fee Ski Slopes Open
Published : 12-Jul-2012 04:02
We may be feeling cold enough already, but Saas Fee's ski slopes open this Saturday, 14th July for their summer skiing and boarding season. In fact unlike most summer ski destinations Saas Fee doesn't actually close again in the late summer or early Autumn, it's open right through to May 2013 – an impressive 10 month ski season.
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UK Ski Holiday Sales Dip For 4th Successive Year Is Smallest Yet
Published : 10-Jul-2012 11:34
Sales of ski and snowboarding holidays from the UK have dropped for a fourth successive winter according to a report from the company that dominates the market, Crystal Ski.
It had been hoped that winter 2011-12 would finally see a return to growth after the rate of decline slowed to around 5% the previous winter from double digit drops immediately after the economic crash, but the double dip recession appears to have out pay to that.
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Alpine Challenge 2013 Announced
Published : 08-Jul-2012 08:53
Snow-Camp (www.snow-camp.org.uk), an innovative youth charity that uses a unique combination of skiing, snowboarding and life-skills programmes to support inner-city young people have announced that their two day endurance fund raising event will be back in the French and Swiss Alps next January.
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Skiers Sought To Ride London Gondola This Saturday
Published : 05-Jul-2012 06:21
The new Emirates Air Line gondola in London has been attracting the attention of skiers and boarders.
The £45m project connects Greenwich Peninsula with the Royal Docks and was opened last week by Boris Johnson.
But it doesn't go to any ski slopes.
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Opening Salvos of 2012-13 Ticket Price Wars
Published : 04-Jul-2012 08:38
Well that's probably too dramatic a headline, most ski areas don't dirty themselves with issues like discounting... But some of the big names have some new initiatives announced for 2012-13 that may be worth considering if you can meet the criteria.
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New Six Seater chairlift Leads Courchevel Improvements
Published : 02-Jul-2012 09:55
Courchevel is installing a new six seat chairlift Biollay for next winter.
The new Biollay chairlift will be, "more powerful, faster, more secure and comfortable," ...than its predecessor according to the famous 3 Valleys resort.
In fact all of the chairlifts in the Courchevel Valley will be more secure next winter, for children at least, as they will all be fitted with the innovative 'Magnestick' system which uses a special device won on a child's ski jacket to magnetise them to the chair as the lifts ascends, releasing them at the unload station at the top.
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