The former indoor snow centre at Braehead near Glasgow in Scotland is to reopen as an indoor karting centre, it has been announced. Most recently known as Snow Factor, but originally built as Xscape by a group which also built the still operating Snozone indoor snow centres in Milton Keynes and Castleford between Leeds and Hull, the facility closed down

Plans for an indoor ski resort for Fairfax in Virginia are still live five years after they were first announced, despite construction not yet getting underway, the company behind the plan says. Alpine X, whose team includes ski racing superstar Bode Miller, initially announced their plans for a first centre at Fairfax, Virginia in 2019 and said they intended to

An event that has proven very popular in recent years, a running race on a course created within the famous Ski Dubai indoor snow centre, returns this May. With outdoor temperatures in the +25 to +40 degrees Celcius range, the DXB Snow Run offers the emirate’s runners the chance to run in a much cooler atmosphere – up to 44

A new indoor ski area under construction at Shenzhen in China is set to be completed and open to the public next year in November 2025, according to reports from the region. The Huafa Super Snow Centre within the larger Huafa Ice and Snow World is being built in the city’s Bao’an District and will incorporate an indoor deep-sea diving

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