Partly Due to the Global Recession Many Snowboarding Operators Will Be Cutting Their Number of Catered Chalets
Partly due to the down turn ski reservations went down last season.
Despite of very good early season bookings along with excellent snow fall.
These falls in holidaymakers comes after seven seasons of growth within the skiing industry, and the numbers dropped from 1.05 million in 2008/9 to 900000 last winter.
Perhaps due to vacationers giving the season a miss, whilst other skiers who’d typically have two or more ski breaks, merely had one.
Sales for the independent travel sector fell by 15% with numerous low cost airlines reducing the number of flights to several airports.
Some tour operators witnessed their bookings going down by a similar 15%.
Nevertheless, the top tour operators share continued at a healthy 73% and the Alps in France carried on as the favourite destination with 37% of the market.
This meant that many tour operators cut down the total number of luxury ski chalets they lease this winter.
Catered ski chalets in particular are going to witness a reduction in no.s as a luxury catered ski chalet incurs more costs with regards to employees and rental when it is unoccupied.
It remains unlikely that we shall benefit from the type of special offers that were on the market this winter.
And prices are expected to rise, prices probably won’t increase substantially.
This winter undoubtedly poses serious issues for the ski industry that is impacted by the effects of the credit crunch, weakness of the pound against the euro, increased fuel costs and large fixed running costs for ski businesses.
