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« Previous Story | The Industry Report Home Page | Next Story » June 26, 2006 Jensen Takes The Helm At NSAA, Fair Winds Ahead? Before starting the grueling, 419-mile ride from New Mexico to Colorado, Jensen summed up the journey's considerable challenge in typical Jensen fashion: "Ten days of fun and fellowship," he said. "Can't wait."
This stoic implacability has served Jensen well. He believes it will help him take NSAA forward during the two years he will serve as chairman of its board of directors.
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Value, Great Snow Offset Security, Dollar Worries In Canada First is the likely enforcement of the passport requirement in the Intelligence and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 - which kicks off early in 2007. Couple that with a weakening Canadian dollar - now a thin dime shy of Uncle Sam's version - about 90 cents these days.
Some say the double whammy could rewrite the National Anthem lyrics to "Woe Canada." But several leading Canadian ski resort marketers, while making it clear these are significant concerns, think the effect can be mitigated by the vacation product offered. But first things, first.
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Seven Springs Acquisition A Family Affair
The deal was a corporate merger between the two families instead of a traditional sale of assets. Shares of stock for Seven Springs Farm property will change hands, but financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Seven Springs Communications Manager, Robert Duppstadt confirmed the deal but had no details.
"Seven Springs has always been a family-run, family-first destination," said Scott Bender, Seven Springs president and COO in a statement. "That focus will not change under the Nuttings." The current management team will remain in place and few changes are expected at the resort this season, said Bender. The resort has about 1,500 employees at its busiest time of the year and 800 year-round.
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Alberta Tourism Basks In "Brokeback" Spotlight "Winning at the Oscars provides a credential booster for the province," said Alberta Minister of Economic Development, Clint Dunford. "Boosting Alberta's image like this means more film business in the future and the imagery captured by Alberta's inspiring scenery will have a lasting effect on Alberta's tourism for years to come."
Derek Coke-Kerr, managing director of Travel Alberta, said a steadfast cadre of movie buffs - mostly from the United States but with an increasing number of European and Asian fans - realize "Brokeback" was filmed in southern Alberta - not Wyoming - and want to visit the exact sites depicted in the movie.
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June 14, 2006 Are Ski Clubs Changing With The Times? Part IISki slopes turn into summer adventures. Ski clubs have evolved into year-round social clubs today.
"We just had a ski club group return from Machu Picchu in Peru," said Far West Ski Association President Mike Sanford. "We've sent groups down the Rhone River and on Scandinavian cruises. We have another group heading out to the Panama Canal later this summer. It's all about athletics and social activities."
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June 12, 2006 Times They Are A-Changin' For U.S. Ski Clubs One thing is certain. Ski clubs book lots of ski trips. That can be a good thing. Or not. The problem, if it is a problem, is that there is little doubt that ski club members are graying. Further, as they age, their numbers are declining. Or, at least, growing only in spots.
"We had a successful marketing campaign targeting ski clubs' younger cohorts," Richard Davidson, president of SkiEurope, a large ski tour operator, told The Industry Report. "This determined that the same motivations that generated the creations of the ski clubs in their heyday of the '60s and '70s still apply. That is, let's get a bunch of friends and go skiing."
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Homewood Mountain Resort Sold To Development CompanyHomewood Mountain Resort - at 1,086 acres the largest chunk of privately-owned land in the Lake Tahoe Basin - has been sold to Bay Area development company JMA Ventures.Owner Jeff Yurosek had hoped to sell Homewood to the U.S. Forest Service for more than $60 million in a deal that was muddied last week by the intervention of 4th Distric Congressman John Doolittle, R-Roseville - a move that instantly picqued fears the land would be carved up and sold off as estate parcels.
But JMA President Art Chapman, who lives in Truckee and who skis at Homewood, said JMA would keep the "family-owned" appeal of Homewood while updating its four lifts, two surface lifts, and lodge.
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Jackson Ups Air Ante Despite Northwest's Woes
Jackson Hole Communications Director Anna Olson told The Industry Report that Jackson Hole Air Improvement Services (JH AIR), a nonprofit private-public partnership of community, business and elected representatives, confirmed that season long daily 757 services on American Airlines will lead the way.
Delta Airlines will check in passengers with five daily CRJJ70 flights and one daily 757 flight from Salt Lake City, plus three daily 757s winging in each week from Atlanta.
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Sestriere Up For Sale As Fiat Fortunes Wane There, he would jump out of the chopper with his skis on and carve out his ruts without ever having to stand in a lift line. Life was good.
And then things went bad.
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Whiteface Expanding, Watching Out For Bicknell's Thrush
The resort filed plans with the state to construct new trails, a triple-chairlift and snowmaking on the eastern side of the mountain, one of the Northeast's top-rated ski areas.
Narrow glade trails are part of the proposal, and the new trails on the upper part of the mountain would be carved to reach out to intermediate skiers on the largely expert upper reaches, according to documents filed with the state.
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June 09, 2006 Perkins Miller Leaves Intrawest For NBC SportsPerkins Miller, former vice-president of marketing and sales at Intrawest Colorado - operators of Copper Mountain and Winter Park resorts - resigned this week to take a job as Senior Vice-President, Digital Media, at NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, a Copper Mountain spokesman confirmed Friday.
Copper spokesman Carlos Garcia said Miller, hired by Intrawest in April of last year, had already left the company. "It all happened very recently, within the last week," he said.
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June 01, 2006 India Okays Ford's Himalayan Ski Venture Alfred Ford's Himalayan Ski Village Pvt Ltd. will build 700 five-star rooms, 300 chalets, a handicrafts village and a food court in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. A basement car park will hold 1,000 vehicles and a high-tech gondola will lift 500 passengers every hour to an altitude of 14,000ft above sea level.
Local cabinet officials gave the project the green light this week after imposing restrictions to ensure local laws were obeyed and the rights of the local people observed.
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