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New Australian Indoor Snow Centre Gets Official Go Ahead

Plans for one of the world’s largest indoor snow centres near Sydney in Australia have been granted ‘State Significant Development Application’ approval, meaning that the project has the official go ahead. The $400 million Winter Sports World in Penrith, which will feature a 300m main run and other snow areas for play and learning has taken eight-years of careful planning

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China Reaches 50 Indoor Snow Centres

China is believed to have passed the milestone of having 50 indoor snow centres operational across the country with at least seven new facilities opening in 2023, many of them in the final months of last year. Taihu Longemont Snow World in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province (pictured above), is one of the latest to open, in the final months of

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The Zero CO2 Groomer

In 2022, Prinoth launched the world’s first electric snow groomer. It is emission-free and can help ski resorts reduce their ecological footprint and its starting to be bought by ski areas around the world. The Husyk E-Motion has been on the market since 2022 and has been bought by ski resorts and cross-country centres in Norway, Sweden, France, Italy and

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Club Med Opens Indoor Ski Resort in China

Fosun, the Chinese company that bought Club Med in 2015, has opened an indoor ski resort near Shanghai. Taicang Alps Resort is around the 50th indoor snow centre in China where, according to 2022-2023 China Ski Industry White Book , by Benny Wu (Wu Bin), almost 20% of skiers and riders there now practice winter sport indoors rather than out.

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Swindon Snow Centre Project Dead

A long planned indoor snow centre for Swindon definitely won’t happen, it has been confirmed, after a decade of “will it, won’t it be built?” uncertainty. At the project’s most optimistic stage, prior to the pandemic, the leading architects Faulkner Browns had drawn up plans for it and the successful Hemel Hampstead facility, The Snow Centre, lined up to operate

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