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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A first permanent indoor snow centre has opened in Qatar in the Persian Gulf. Snow Dunes is located within the Doha Festival City Mall and has an indoor snow area of 9,500 square metres. The centre is themed on an Arabian City and a legend about snow there. Images of the park’s opening show queues forming as excited locals get
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The Dubai-based Majid Al Futtaim group which has given us Ski Dubai, Africa’s first indoor snow centre Ski Egypt and is working on a third mall with indoor snow centre in Saudi Arabia, has said a fourth complex with indoor snow facility is progressing in Oman. Mall of Oman will have 145,000sqm of retail space with 350 outlets, Oman’s largest
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A new indoor snow centre that has opened this summer at a mall in Taiwan makes snow off-site so there’s no need for a refrigerated building. The new Snowtown indoor snow park at the Mitsui Outlet Park at Taichung Port in Taipei, Taiwan, uses a Snowfactory snow-making machine from TechnoAlpin. Snowfactories are perhaps best known for snowmaking at conventional ski
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The rapidly expanding SnowWorld group of indoor snow centres has unveiled a new corporate identity whilst unveiling a 30% jump in its EBITDA figure (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) for the first six months of this year. SnowWorld recently acquired SnowPlanet and the and the two SkiDomes run by the SIS Leisure Group to give it control of
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With temperatures hitting 27C today in Manchester, the city’s indoor snow centre Chill Factore is giving those with red hair and fair skins who are particularly susceptible to strong sunshine the chance to escape indoors to escape the heat, free of charge. Redheads can choose either a free session in the centre’s snow fun park to enjoy some tubing, tobogganing
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Hopes that the very long-planned “American Dream” massive retail and leisure complex may finally begin to open later this year have been bolstered by the appearance of dozens of job opportunity vacancy postings for the centre online. The Meadowlands mall has been under construction since 2004, has had three different giant corporate owners and is home to the first indoor
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China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC Group), which claims to be, “…the world’s largest and strongest metallurgical construction contractor and operation service provider,” has partnered with The Polin Group, which describes itself as “…a leading single source amusement park supplier,” to create the Kunming Indoor Rainforest and Snowpark in Kunming, Yunnan, southwestern China. The attraction will consist of an indoor rainforest
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Local officials have given the go ahead to a plan to build a large indoor snow centre on a former landfill site in Lorton, Virginia, and 20 miles from US Capital Washington D.C. The facility, named Fairfax Peak, in the state’s Fairfax County was first announced last year, and has been going through the initial assessment process. The centre would
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A massive new indoor snow centre in China, due to officially open next month, has had its ‘soft opening’. Located in the Southern city of Guangzhou, population around 15 million, the centre originally named ‘The Cultural Tourism City’ was initiated by the Wanda Group, the same company that built the world’s largest indoor snow centre (by snow area) in Harbin,
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