Indoor snow centres have been providing off-season training facilities for decades now, but during the pandemic, with travel to glacier resorts and southern hemisphere ski camps difficult or impossible for many racers, they have been coming in to their own this summer, since they have been allowed to re-open in most countries. The International Ski Federation (FIS) recently ran a
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The Mall of Oman, which is set to feature the third indoor snow centre from the Majid Al Futtaim group, has set a new opening date of September next year. The complex had been due to open next March but the group says its tenants need more time to prepare their facilities. Unlike Majid Al Futtaim two existing indoor snow
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Ski Dubai have announced plans to stage what is being dubbed, “the world’s first summer snow-running competition.” The event, scheduled to take place on August 14, will see up to 300 runners compete at the indoor snow slope running three kilometres (just under two miles) in total, up and down the centre’s 400 metre long indoor snow slope. 300 slots
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Japan has seen two new indoor snow centres open, in the cities of Shonan and Tokyo, the first new indoor snow facilities in the country for almost 20 years. Unlike the centres that opened their in the 1980s and 1990s however, as well as the world’s first that opened in the 1950s, the new centres, part of the Snowtown group,
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The 2020 edition of the World Indoor Snow Centre Guide marks the completion of the third full decade of indoor snow centres existing. In that time 145 centres have been built in 35 countries on six continents. The past 12 months have been a big year for the world’s indoor snow centre as it has seen three of the five
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Three of the world’s seven largest indoor snow centres have opened in China in just the past year and two of these feature indoor gondola lifts. The lifts, at Guangdong Sunac Snow World which opened last summer and at Xiangjiang Joy City Snow World are slow moving and were designed mostly for sight-seers rather than skiers and snowboarders, but they
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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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