More details of the Snowflex slope previously reported by Snow365 have now been published by Briton Engineering Developments who make Snowflex.
The slope will be built at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Liberty University’s 5,800-acre mountain will receive a monumental makeover in the coming months with the construction of the year-round ski slope to be named the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre.
The idea of building a snow-free ski slope on Liberty Mountain began three years ago when the university investigated several ways it could use its mountain property to meet Liberty’s academic, financial and recruiting goals. In addition to giving students more recreational opportunities near campus, the slope will help establish skiing and snowboarding as LU club sports.
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Initial data is pointing that the British ski market appears to be performing at record levels for pre 2008-9 sales despite the growing financial pressures on families.
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Most tour operators are reporting early sales significantly up, crediting a feel good factor hangover from the excellent conditions in the Alps last winter combined with fears that the later clients leave their bookings, the higher prices will be, a fear which is justified according to Le Ski boss Nick Morgan,
It has been incredibly busy here since we launched our Early Booking Offer brochure. Fifty per cent of our holidays are now sold for next year and we’re twenty per cent up on this stage last year. This is mainly very satisfied guests returning but is also partly explained by the fact that we said prices would go up on 1st August a long time ago (and they will) so people are simply booking early to avoid that rise. The rise is of course market-wide and inevitable with the oil price impacting on the air charter market for example. “
Self-catering apartment specialist Erna Low is currently 30% up on early bookings compared to this time last year – evidence they believe that there is a switch from expensive holidays to economical and flexible self catering breaks for the forthcoming winter.
Virtually all operators are offering significant early booking discounts, Thomson, for example, have up to 25% off holidays booked before the end of October.
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