Work is reported to be progressing on what is set to be the new world’s biggest indoor snow centre under construction in Shanghai. The project, first announced nearly two years ago in 2018 and then called Winastar China now appears to have been re-christened Montigo Resort Shanghai but remains on track to open in Beijing winter Olympics Year, 2022, according
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What is regarded as the world’s oldest surviving indoor snow centre, Sayama in Japan, is closed this year for renovations, according to the SnowJapan.com website Sayama first opened in 1959 and has a 300 metre long slope with a roof on it. However the slope has partially open sides, covered with hanging clear plastic to keep the cold in in
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An outdoor real-snow fun park is due to open in the famously hot and largely flat US state of Florida this autumn. Snowcat Ridge will feature am 18 metre (60 feet) high hill with multiple tubing lanes down its 122 metre (400 feet) long slope. A conveyor lift will be used to get visitors up the slope. “The snow hill
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A growing number of indoor snow centres that had been forced to close by the pandemic around the world have re-opened. All re-opened centres have increased hygiene measures in place, along with social distancing rules, face-mask-wearing requirements and often other measures to minimise virus spreads risk. Centres in China, where the pandemic began and the country was in lockdown from
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Indoor snow centres in China are starting to re-open. The move comes after the country decided a return to a more normal way of life should begin after the number of new domestic coronavirus COVID-19 infections dropped dramatically this week, according to official reports. In many cases it is less than two months since they closed as the COVID-19 epidemic
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The Dubai-based retail giant Majid Al Futtaim, which already operates Ski Dubai and Ski Egypt and is working on a third indoor snow centre in a huge mall complex under construction in Saudi Arabia, has announced that a fourth centre, in Oman, is on course to open in March next year. Unlike Majid Al Futtaim existing indoor snow centres however,
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Snowmaking has got underway for the first time since 2008 at the indoor snow centre that’s part of the huge new American Dream indoor theme park and shopping mall complex in New Jersey. The complex, reported to have been conceived in 1996 and under-construction, on-and-off, since 2004 began opening to the public this week. The indoor snow centre element which
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A long-standing plan to build an indoor snow centre in Saint-Paul near Paris has been dropped. In a statement issued by the group planning the slope, the reasons given were, “In the context where climate change has become a reality, the project to build a ski trail in Saint-Paul might not be understood and accepted by our fellow citizens. Therefore
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The indoor snow centre within the huge American Dream mall will not open until about six weeks after the $5 billion complex begins opening its doors on October 25th. Big SNOW, North America’s first indoor real-snow park for skiing and boarding, will open on December 5th, offering year-round skiing and snowboarding, as well as a retail shop. Private lessons, coaching
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The UK’s longest indoor snow slope, Chill Factore, is celebrating Pride across the region and invited one of the UK’s most famous drag queens, The Vivienne, to ski down the slope in full regalia. The Vivienne has been performing around the world for the past 11 years and since 2015 has been the UK ambassador for the global hit TV
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