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Indoor Snow Centre Offers 50% Savings To Outdoor Workers

With temperatures regularly getting into the 90s Fahrenheit in recent weeks, North America’s only indoor snow ski centre in New Jersey’s vast American Dream mall is offering outdoor workers  a cool discount. The indoor ski and snow resort is extending a 50% discount on lift tickets throughout August to outdoor workers who present proof of employment. The initiative, dubbed “Cool

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New Indoor Snow Village For India

A slice of the Arctic has arrived in Noida in India with the launch of Snow Village. The sprawling indoor snow-themed attraction is now open on the 4th floor of Tower E, Spectrum Metro Phase-2.  It’s the latest of now more than a dozen indoor snow experience cenfres across India. Covering 25,000 square feet, the immersive snow zone offers visitors

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Bonski To Run 12 Centres By Year End; New Jinan Bonski Announced

China’s Bonski Group, already the planet’s largest indoor ski areas operator, including most of the world’s five largest centres, has announced plans to build a new centre in Jinan.   Authorities have officially announced the bidding results for Phase I design, construction management, and long-term operations of a major indoor ski dome at Jinan’s Cuizhai Area Block 39, marking a

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Mikaela Shiffrin Trains Indoors in Hamburg

The most successful ski racer of all time, Mikaela Shiffrin ,has been training with the U.S. Ski Team at the Alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg, one of Europe’s largest indoor ski facilities. The team also trained here last year. Covering 30,000 square meters, the facility features two lifts, over 600 metres of trails, and a vertical drop of 56 meters. Though not suitable

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Second Indoor Snow Centre Announced For Brazil

The company that runs Brazil’s only indoor snow centre has announced plans for a second, larger facility, this time in São Paulo, the most populace city in South America with over 22 million people living in its metropolitan area. Little has been announced about the plans soi far. However operator Gramado Parks have announced a budget of R$200 million for

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Snow Duathlon at Ski Dubai

Ski Dubai has staged a first ‘Snow Duathlon’ fun competition as part of a series of events coordinated by The Dubai Sports Council as part of its ‘Our Summer is Sporty’  initiative which will run until the end of August. The Snow Duathlon event on 29th June saw participant compete in a running race on snow combined with spells spinning

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New Indoor Snow Centre Open in Hebei Province

The new largest indoor ski resort in the region, Zhengding Bonski, the latest to carry the Bonski name, has had a soft opening ahead of its full official opening this Sunday July 6th. Located in Zhengding county, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, about 250km from the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, the centre covers 30,000-square-metres and features beginner and intermediate gradient slopes

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Kilde Back on Snow

Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the Norwegian downhill ski racing superstar has been spotted back on snow, training indoor after a horrific crash in the Lauberhorn Downhill at Wengen last year led to him being unable to race the rest of the 23=24 season. Further post-accident complications led to him missing the 24-25 season too. Kilde has been back on snow training

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New Zealand’s Indoor Snow Centre Celebrates 20 Years

Snowplanet, located in Silverdale on Auckland’s North Shore in New Zealand is celebrating 20 years in business Over those two decades the centre says 2.6 million visitors have been through its doors. Snowplanet, which is both the most southerly and largest of the few indoor ski fields in the Southern Hemisphere, provides year round access to skiing, snowboarding, and snow

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