More than a dozen of the world’s top resorts have now opened for the winter – in most cases thanks to heavy snowfall which has brought several feet (60cm+) of fresh snow to some resorts in the Alps, as well as big falls in the Pyrenees and at least a foot (30cm) to most.
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World’s First Sauna Gondola to open in Yllas
Talk about innovation and bringing après-ski to new heights! The Scandinavian obsession with saunas has reached new heights in the Lappish ski resort of Ylläs where the world’s first ever sauna gondola will open this winter.
The gondola – wood clad inside and out – travels up to the top station at 718m, where there is a main sauna at the top of Ylläs Fell, which can be rented for private use. From here you can leave your belongings and rent the sauna gondola from 7-9pm and experience the most unique sauna ever!

The sauna gondola can take 4 people at a time, for up to 12 people during a two hour session. Take it in turns with two rounds each, whilst friends relax in the main sauna at the top station.
Inghams feature offer a seven night stay at the three star Akas Hotel in Ylläs where prices start from £393 per person in a self-catering one-room cabin for up to four people, including return flights from Gatwick, with alternative routes from Birmingham, Manchester or Bristol at small supplements.

Call 020 8780 4447 or visit www.inghams.co.uk. To book the sauna gondola and main sauna at top station 718m costs a total of €1500 ($2,500 US) or book the main sauna separately for €500 ($700 US).

Finland’s Ruka ski area, high up close to the Arctic Circle, will again stay open to mid-June this year, clocking up what the resort believes to be the longest winter for a non-glacier resort in Europe, probably anywhere.

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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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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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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’

• 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. Continue reading ‘WORLD LIFT TICKET PRICE REPORT 2008 PUBLISHED’