One of the world’s largest, and most impressive yet, indoor snow centres is due to open later this year in China’s southerly Hunan province. “Xiangjiang Joy City Snow World” will have a 30,000 square metre indoor snow park – placing it in the world top five in size, of more than 90 indoor snow centres that are now open on
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China has opened what is believed to be Asia’s first year-round ski tunnel for cross-country skiers. The new Beishan All-Weather Cross-Country Ski Resort in northeast China’s Jilin Province features a 1,308-metre indoor ski run and a 1,616-metre outdoor ski run. The facility is reported to have cost 990 million yuan (148 million U.S. dollars) to construct. The opening of the
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Benny Wu, author of the authoritative guide to rapidly expanding ski industry, reports that there are now 26 indoor snow centres open across the country, a rise of five during 2018 compared to the 2017 figure. Several more are under construction. Mr Wu’s China Ski Industry White Book 2018, available to download via the download section at industry consultant Laurent
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A “snowboarding vicar” has set himself the challenge of boarding at all six 6 UK indoor snow centres in one day in a charity fundraiser. The Reverend Steven Young, Vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Mill Hill, will aim to complete his 478 mile odyssey on Tuesday, January 26th, starting off at The Snow Centre at Hemel Hempstead with
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Malaysia’s Snowalk indoor snow centre, which first opened in 2011, has had a major upgrade and has doubled in size. Located in the futuristic I-City, ‘Snowalk’ was already home to igloos, ice houses, ice slides, snowmen, ice sculptures and millions of LED lights for special effects including recreating the aurora borealis. However the centre has been expanded to cover 4,500
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SnowWorld and the shareholders of the SIS Leisure Group have reached agreement on the acquisition of the SIS Leisure Group by SnowWorld. The SIS Leisure Group operates indoor ski halls in Rucphen and Terneuzen in the Netherlands as well as an indoor Skydive in Roosendaal. After the acquisitions in December 2018 of SnowWorld Amsterdam and Alpenpark Neuss (25%), SnowWorld is
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The first indoor ski and snowboarding park in North America appears on course to open this spring, 17 years after the American Dream (then called Xanadu) project at Meadowlands in New Jersey began, and around three decades since the first of many dozens of indoor ski areas proposed over the years for the USA and Canada came and went without
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Construction of a mall that will incorporate the first snow park in South Africa is set to get underway next month. The new Oceans Mall in Durban, KwaZulu Natal will be built over 36,000 square metres and also include 103 retail outlets, 12 restaurants, cinemas, an ice bar and a hotel and has a price tag of 1.4 billion Rand
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The sport of snow kayaking, essentially racing down a snow slope in a kayak, has an illustrious history. Believed to have been invented by whitewater kayakers in the Alps as a winter alternative when the rivers were frozen under snow, the first recorded official race was held in the Austrian resort of Lienz. The first Snow Kayaking World Championships were
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Reports from Norway indicate that the huge new indoor snow centre under construction at Lørenskog outside Oslo, is, or soon will be, wind and water tight with walls and roof completed. The new ski hall will include 40,000 square metres of indoor snow space, making it the world’s second-biggest at present after the recently opened centre in Harbin, China. The
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