An indoor snow centre in Belgium that has been closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic for the past four months is spending €30,000 a month on electricity to maintain its snow. Snow Valley indoor snow centre has made almost all staff redundant and is eating into its financial reserves to keep going.  It has now been shuttered

The British operator of England’s Castleford and Milton Keynes indoor snow centres, Snozone Holdings Ltd, has taken over the operation the Madrid Snowzone in Spain. Madrid’s Snowzone, located in the Xanadu mall, which opened around 20 years ago at a similar time to the Snozone in Milton Keynes, has an interesting history.  It was originally built by the then dominant

Plans for a first indoor snow centre in Wales, planned for a former quarry site near Merthyr Tydfil, first announced several years ago, remain ‘live’ with the announcement that the project’s developers intend to submit a detailed planning proposal early this summer. At around 500 metres in length the Rhydycar West development will feature by far the longest slope in

The giant Sunac Snow Park in Guangzhou, the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province, has reported “nearly two million visitors” in the seven months since it opened in June 2020, despite the pandemic, according to its management. Interviewed by China Global Television Network (CGTN) one snowboarder said he had quite his job and moved home to be closer to

With more than 30 indoor snow centres now operational (about a quarter of the world total), including several of the planet’s largest facilities. Chinas is already by far the world’s largest operator of these facilities. With the 2022 Winter Olympics – by which time China aimed to get 300 million people interested in ice or snow sports – now just

A new indoor snow centre called Snow World has opened in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. It is believed to be the 150th to be built worldwide, of which 115 are currently operational in 33 countries. Ahmemad is a city of 5.5 million people located north of Mumbai in the province of Gujarat on the West side of India.  Outdoor

A new world record has been set for the “Greatest Vertical Distance Skied Up and Downhill in 24 Hours (indoors)”. Snowsports instructor Callum Mackenzie (26) achieved this world record by scaling the 180m indoor slope at Chill Factore in Manchester 200 times, achieving a total vertical climb of 12,000 metres. As a result he skinning up the slope for a

One of the longest planned indoor snow centres in the Middle East will open in 2021, the company behind it says. Snow Park Abu Dhabi will be a ‘destination snow park attraction’ covering 11,600 square metres (125,000 sq ft park) with less of an onus on skiing and snowboarding, it is understood, but more on multi-snow fun activities including sledging

One of the longest planned indoor snow centres in British history will still happen, its new backers say, but with a modified plan and a new name: Valley Ridge Resort. The SnOasis project, which included a 400 metre long indoor snow slope – more than twice as long as any other in the UK – was first unveiled two decades

A remarkable new snowsports facility is set to open in the unlikely location of Florida – the famously hot and sunny southern US state – this weekend. Snowcat Ridge Alpine Snow Park, which opens on 20th November, after several years of planning is located in Dade City, just over an hour away from the state’s famous theme park area of