A new entry in the top ten biggest indoor snow centres in the world list will open in Shanghai later this year, and will be the latest to get a chunk of the energy it needs to make snow and keep its interior below freezing from a vast solar array on its roof. The idea of photovoltaic panels covering the

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

China’s ski business continues to outstrip the rest of the world in terms of growth in business and the indoor ski market continues to be much bigger here than in other nations. Last year saw the country become the first to reach a total of 50 centres operating and the team behind China’s White Book of Ski areas, which records

China’s southern province of Guangdong is reporting large numbers wanting to take advantage of its indoor snow slopes. The province, with a population of 14 million and a humid subtropical climate with temperatures ranging between +18 and 35C is reporting that the new Guangzhou Hot Snow Miracle indoor snow centre has now attracted over 3 million visitors since its opening.

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

An indoor snow centre in Germany has become fully self-sufficient in green energy by building a vast field of solar panels covering the ground on two sides of the huge building. The Neuss Alpine Park has covered an area of ​​30,000 m² generating enough solar power to cover the entire energy needs not just of its indoor snow hall but

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

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.

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

An American man who has managed to ski at least once every month for 41 years decided to ski indoors in September and October to keep his achievement going. 74 year old Gordon Garlock who lives in Portland, Oregon, travelled from the US West to east coasts in order to ski at the only indoor snow centre in North America,