The Kitzsteinhorn Mellow Parks on the glacier above Kaprun in Austria will be enlarged this winter with a superpipe. The new superpipe will be build near the summit station of the Sonnenkarbahnen, at around 3000m, between piste no. 1 and the Roxy park. This will be the only superpipe in the Salzburg region and one out of three in Austria. The pipe will be 150 metres long and the walls will be five metres high. Ther glacier ski area remains open for most of the year and is currently open for summer skiing and boarding so it seems likely that the superpipe will be a year round facility.
Daily Archive for August 17th, 2008
The Compagnie des Alpes, the world’s largest ski lift and resort operator by passenger numbers, recently announced that a record number of ticket sales for the 2007-08 winter season.
Reporting on the company’s third quarter of the current financial year, a company spokesman commented,
The third quarter was affected by a slow month of April. This was due to an Easter weekend that fell in the month of March this year, and to an unfavourable spring holiday schedule in France. “
However overall during the first nine months of the company’s financial year, and including all of last winter, ski area sales grew by 23% on a real basis, largely because of the consolidation of STVI (Val d’Isère) and SFB (Saas Fee) lift companies as of October 1st last year. Sales grew 6.6% like for like, with lifts sales showing growth of +8.5%. Visitor numbers reached a record of 13.7 million skier-days (+6.8%) for the season overall. This performance makes up for much of the drop in land sales transactions (0.8 million vs. 6.4 million).
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