Following several years of staging early season world cup events 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.
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Although the Beijing Olympics have now closed and attention switches to the coming World Alpine Ski Championships in Val d’Isere next winter and the 2010 Olympics the season after, China is still to host one more major international contest, and this time its snow sports.
The 24th 2009 World University Games, also known as the ‘Universiade’ will be held in the country’s skiing capital city Harbin, 800km (500 miles) north of Beijing and a former host of the Asian Winter Games.
The ski events will be held at Sun Mountain Yabuli, the country’s original resort in the late 1990s, from which (at last report) 300 new ski centres have developed across the country over the past decade. The resort is now operated by Melco China Resorts Ltd, established for only six months, but already owner of half a dozen major ski areas in the country, making it the Chinese equivalent of Vail.
The company is busy converting these areas in to up-market developments with year round attractions, and has signed up the prestigious Small Luxury Hotels of the World group, which has properties in many of the world’s top resorts, for one of its properties.
At Yabuli MELCO is adding heated gondolas and new hotels at the top and bottom of the slopes as part of a $25m spend. The number of skiers in China is expected to reach 10 million by 2010 from a standing start in 1996.
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Solden is replacing its old triple chairlift at Giggijoch with a modern eight seater version, the resort’s first.
At the same time the Giggijoch Restaurant has been renovated with a new traditional-style restaurant created and escalators installed so there will no longer be any need to climb stairs in your ski boots.
Solden opens for the winter in less than two months on Saturday 11th October. Tickets will cost 38 Euros per day for adults through to 19th December, with multi-day as well as child, teen and senior discounts available. The resort also hosts the first European round of the FIS World Cup on the 25th and 26th of October.
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Inghams have released their 2008 - 2009 Ski Luxury collection which the company says aims to offer the elusive combination of affordability and luxury. Its seventy-one hotels, in forty-three of the world’s finest resorts are as distinctive as they are distinguished. Hotels have been chosen for their exceptional quality, individual style and unique ambience.
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“When it comes to the environment,” says Alfred Strigl, deputy director of the Austrian Institute for Sustainability, “Austrians are top of Europe and top of the world.” Being green, he explains, has always come naturally to his countrymen.
We are the indigenous people of Europe. We have a broad traditional knowledge of natural topics that [...]
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Our friends at Skiinfo recently sent us this copy on places where you can ski in Europe this time a year despite the high temperatures and melting glaciers. So if you are near one of these ski resorts and you fancy some skiing, so you can get early bragging rights on the season then you [...]
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Stephen Jordan, Head of Marketing for the new indoor Snow Centre under construction at Hemel Hempstead has recently announced a decision to award supply of all snow sports equipment to HEAD – confirming an agreement to be the first UK snow sports centre to use HEAD’s innovative BYS system for rented skis and boards.
‘The equipment [...]
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A combination of great snow and weather conditions, world-class events and quieter slopes makes September the prime time to visit Lake Wanaka’s four ski areas.
With accommodation, gear rental and lift pass specials on offer throughout September, groups of friends and families will be enticed to the mountains with good value holidays. Trips do not [...]
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Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (KHMR) in British Columbia has unveiled a new Draft Master Plan during a series of Open House sessions in the local resort town of Golden.
The new Draft Master Plan proposes the expansion of the existing ski resort (KHMR) into a destination resort including a signature 18-hole golf course, a densification [...]
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A long running legal battle between Arizona Snowbowl ski area and local indigenous tribes who hold the mountain sacred appears to have finally concluded in the resort’s favour. Arizona Snowbowl wants to use purified waste water to make snow above Flagstaff on the ski mountain known as Humphrey’s Peak in northern Arizona’s San Francisco [...]
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