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Europa and World Cup moves indoors due to weather

No doubt the early season competitions and increase changing patterns associated with climate change, are behind this decision to hold early season indoor world cup events indoors. The first event will be held at Snowworld at Landgraaf in Holland, the International Ski Federation (FIS) is expanding the number of events to be staged on indoor snow this season, with venues in France and Germany added to the now regular Dutch fixture.

Europa Cup Slalom competitions will be staged between November 4th and 7th, first at France’s only indoor ski centre at Amneville, then at Snoworld Landgraaf in Holland and finally at Neuss in Germany.

Landgraaf will again hold Snowboard World Cup Parallel Slalom events on 10th and 11th October.

666.78% more visitors come to SkiRebel Magazine in March

With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.

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SkiRebel Magazine Celebrates 1st Year…

Since the relaunch of the popular skirebel.com portal in February 2007, SkiRebel Magazine has managed to attract more than 22,658 unique visitors with some 67,000 page impressions.

Since migrating the PDF only online ski magazine to a more user friendly online format, magazine management is ecstatic with the initial results. So far 2008, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd., the main shareholder of the online property is forecasting tripling online visits. So far the first week forecast is blowing that forecast out of the water.
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WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED

For the seventh year, independent ski area research company Snow24 plc, based in Scotland, Great Britain, have published their unique comparison of six-day lift ticket prices worldwide. The World Lift Ticket Price Report, sponsored by Liftopia.com, compares the high season, non-discounted, prices of ski passes at more than 550 ski areas in 40 countries* around the world in US Dollars, European Euros and British Pounds. Continue reading ‘WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED’

Hotel to Open at Holland Ski Slope

A new hotel at the world’s largest indoor ski slope in Holland opens next month. The operators of the Sporthotel SnowWorld Landgraaf are hoping to attract skiers for weekend and week long ski holidays to the hills of the South Limburg region where the centre is located.
The 100 room, 420 bed hotel opens on March 21st and also include a fitness and wellness area. SnowWorld Landgraaf has a 550m indoor slope and recently opened its fifth indoor slope to the complex. The facility attracts regular World Cup slalom ski and snowboard races.
Another indoor ski centre, Ski Dubai, also has a hotel linked to the ski slopes, a five star Kempinski.

WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED

• Canadian resorts move in to the list of the world’s 10 most expensive tickets.
• Canadian ticket may be northern hemisphere’s most expensive outside peak season.

For the seventh year, independent ski area research company Snow24 plc, based in
Scotland, Great Britain, have published their unique comparison of six-day lift ticket prices worldwide. The World Lift Ticket Price Report, sponsored by Liftopia.com, compares the high season, non-discounted, prices of ski passes at more than 550 ski areas in 40 countries* around the world in US Dollars, European Euros and British Pounds.
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Three-Run Slalom Debuts Indoors

International FIS (International Ski Federation) sanctioned competitions for the 2007-8 European and World Cup kicked off in the Netherlands and Germany last month, both indoors at SnowWorld in Landgraaf in Holland and Bottrop in Germany. A new three-run slalom event was successfully staged, rather than the conventional two-run event.

The four slalom events were conducted as three-run slaloms, with the first two runs raced according to the normal slalom rules (and valid for FIS points) but then only the top 30 raced the third and final run. Competition in the third run started from null, with no time advantages from the FIS races carrying over.

“We are very pleased with these first trials of the three-run slalom format. Along with technical prowess, it also requires considerable concentration and tactical skill from the athletes,” said Janez Flere, coordinator for the women’s FIS Europa Cup tour. “I look forward to a first outdoor trial of this format, perhaps next season somewhere together with the men’s European Cup.”