Wintersports Rediscovered
Inghams Travel, one of the UK’s major operators, has launched its main Ski and Snowboard 07/08 brochure.
The new brochure has a fresh, contemporary look, together with a totally new logo and improved layout to ensure it is user friendly, with lots of easy to find holidays. There are new destination options in Austria, France, Japan and Spain.
Continue reading ‘Inghams Offer 90+ Resorts, 23 UK Departure Airports, 70+ Years Experience’
Grindelwald will open its first six seater chair, will pull down wind-protection hood, in the Kleine Scheidegg sector, next winter. The new Honegg chair will serve the widened Honegg run which will also have new snowmaking. It is the resort’s first six seater chair, adding to the nine quads, two gondolas, three funicular railways and cable car (tram).
Continue reading ‘Grindelwald gets firs six pack and freezes ticket prices for 2007′
Fred Jones, President and CEO of Winter Sports Inc, the owners of the ski resort formally known as Big Mountain, in Montana, USA, has announced that the resort launching a new branding and positioning initiative, including the renaming of Big Mountain as “Whitefish Mountain Resort”. The 60 year old resort will now take its name from the historic railroad town where the resort was founded in 1947.
Up to 45cm (18 inches) of fresh dry snow has fallen over several Australian resorts since last week. On top of this snowfall, which is set to continue and comes on top of healthy falls earlier in the month, it has been cold enough for snowmaking to operate at capacity.
Continue reading ‘Resorts ‘Down Under’ are all smiles with extra snow dump’
Environmental activists were planning to meet on June 18th to protest against the Himalayan Ski Village Project near Manali in the Indian Himalayas. The day long protest intends to bring together members of at least 20 environmental organisations who will join hands with locals at a site five kilometres (three miles) from the resort site. Their objective is to influence the regional Himachal Pradesh government’s decision on granting approval to the project.
Continue reading ‘Environmentalists Protest Against Eco Friendly Ski Resort in Himalayas’
Italy’s Val Gardena, centred on three key resorts in the Dolomites, the best known of which is Selva, is replacing two more drag lifts with new quad chairs taking the area’s remarkable tally up to 27, the most in the world for a single ski region.
Continue reading ‘Val Gardena sets record for the most quad chairs at a single ski resort’
Vail Resorts, which operates Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone and Beaver Creek in Colorado and Heavenly in California has reported a fifteen percent increase in earnings for the quarter for February, March and April.
Continue reading ‘Colorado Snowfall Down, But Vail Income Up’