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

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

Work is underway on construction of the next world’s largest indoor snow centre near Shanghai. The development is Phase 2 of an existing indoor ski centre, Taicang Alps Resort, which is owned by the Fosun group which also owns holiday company Club Med.  It is located in Taicang, a city located only 30 miles from central Shanghai. The new second

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

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

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

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

It’s been announced that a Chinese indoor ski centre that was largely completed several years ago but until now has failed to open, will now do so June 28, 2025. Darongshan Indoor Ski Resort is situated in the Gaoshan Dadong Scenic Area of Darongshan National Forest Park in Guangxi province. The resort is 40 kilometers or an hour’s drive away

A spectacular new water park has opened as part of the huge building that houses the Shanghai L+SNOW Indoor Skiing Theme Resort. The new Shanghai Yaoxue Water World opens on May 31st and is reported to be the city’s first new large-scale water park to open in more than a decade. The water park is promoting itself as “China’s first

A new indoor snow centre has opened in Malaysia, very close to the island nation of Singapore. SnowLand JB in Johor Bahru has opened on the Ground Floor of Mall of Medini just 30 minutes across the causeway from Singapore. The new centre features ice slides, snow sculptures and real snow falling from its roof. “SnowLand isn’t just for photo