Austria Tourism has teamed up with the indoor snow centre group Snozone, to encourage more non-skiers to try snowsports. The year-long partnership includes beginner courses, holiday information and more, all aimed to make skiing widely accessible and spark interest in an Austrian winter holiday. The move follows the completion of a joint 2024 study by Austria Tourism, Switzerland Tourism, TUI

As summer glacier skiing becomes ever more limited, indoor snow centres are reporting growing numbers of ski teams visiting in the northern hemisphere’s off season to take advantage of their training facilities, which offer longer hours and more consistent conditions than the remaining summer glacier areas. Belgium’s Snow Valley indoor ski centre in Peer has once again underlined its status

Alpine-X, the company behind plans for a network of large-scale indoor snow and entertainment destinations across North America, has announced a strategic partnership with sports investment and advisory firm TFO Sports. The agreement is designed to help Alpine-X accelerate its growth plans by leveraging TFO Sports’ network of investors, athlete executives and industry veterans. As part of the partnership, TFO

Tourists in Wuhan, China, are carving turns on snow in the middle of summer, thanks to a vast indoor ski resort powered increasingly by its own solar energy. Wuhan Chengjian Bonski, the largest facility of its kind in Central China, keeps its 1‑million‑cubic‑meter interior at –6 C even as outdoor temperatures approach 40 C. That cooling load is immense: the

One of China’s most ambitious indoor winter‑sports venues yet is under construction with the Qingdao Guoxin Indoor Ice & Snow Sports Dome in Shandong, located south of Beijing on China’s East Coast. Which has a price tag of RMB 970 million (USD 133 million / EUR 122 million) and although it won’t be one of the country’s 10 biggest, is being positioned as China’s largest city‑centre

The number of indoor snow centres operating in China has now passed 70 and there’s little sign of a slow down in new projects. Among the new generation, Nanning Milun Ice & Snow World, a major new indoor winter sports complex planned for the Nanning Wanda Mall in Guangxi, has moved into its development phase following an official signing ceremony

More than 1,000 athletes representing 79 nationalities took part in the seventh edition of the DXB Snow Run at Ski Dubai, held in partnership with the Dubai Sports Council. The annual event once again transformed the indoor slopes into a -4°C racecourse, with participants aged 13 to 70 tackling either a 3km or 5km route across the venue’s snowy terrain.