The Sunac Group, which runs the three largest indoor snow centres in the world and a portfolio of more indoor snow centres than any other operator worldwide, has had its stock suspended from trading after it failed to post its results. Having reported profits of $3.7 billion in 2019, an increase of 57% from the previous year, it has recently

The Big Snow indoor snow centre in New Jersey has re-opened after eight-months of closure following fire damage last September. “We are excited to reopen Big SNOW to guests this Memorial Day Weekend,” said Trish McLeod, Director of Resorts Marketing & Sales, SNOW Partners. “We thank our visitors and team for their patience as we’ve worked diligently to resume the

A major indoor snow centre planned near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales will enter its Pre-Application Consultation (PAC) period next month with the planning application to be submitted once that is completed, the team behind the complex has announced. They say that the all year round indoor resort at Rhydycar West will include one of Europe’s longest indoor snow slopes,

Alpine-X, the company that has been planning an indoor snow centre in Virginia for several years and has recently added the famous alpine ski racer Bode Miller to their team, have announced plans to build two more indoor snow centres, this time in Texas. Alpine-X, who have always said that their intention is to build around 20 indoor snow centres

Saudi Arabia have announced plans to build a ski-resort in the desert as part of the Kingdom’s Neom megacity project. The ski resort, named ‘Trojena’, will contain a “folded vertical village” and a three-kilometre man-made lake. “Trojena will redefine mountain tourism for the world by creating a place based on the principles of ecotourism, highlighting our efforts to preserve nature

Reports from China, where the focus is on in imminent Winter Olympics and Paralympics around capital Beijing, indicate that a new “world’s largest indoor snow centre”, including an indoor Olympic standard ski run, will be completed in the country’s second city, Shanghai, before the end of 2022. Now known as WintaStar Shanghai, the spectacular project was first unveiled as Winterland

America’s most successful male ski racer and world-famous name in the wintersports world, Bode Miller, has joined the Alpine-X group as ‘Innovation Officer’. Alpine-X have plans to build at least 10 indoor snow centres across America with an initial the $200 million development facility known as Fairfax Peak in Northern Virginia moving through the planning approval process with a target

The SnowWorld Group who are headquartered in The Netherlands celebrated 25 years in business in December. The company has been the most successful and most prominent in the world of indoor snowsports, which is itself only just over three decades old in its modern era of refrigerated halls. SnowWorld now operate seven indoor snow centres, along with associated hotels and

The new Mall of Saudi will have the biggest indoor snow slope yet when it opens, possibly in 2025, according to the boss of the company building it. In an interview with Arab News, Alain Bejjani, chief executive of the Majid Al-Futtaim (MAF) group which build malls that house indoor snow centres Ski Dubai and Ski Egypt, among many others,

75 years after it first appeared in cinemas, the popularity of It’s a Wonderful Life grows year on year, but now a report in Entertainment Weekly has uncovered how the film’s makers devised a revolutionary new method to create the snow scenes that are so crucial to the Christmas climax of the film. Entertainment Weekly reports that director Frank Capra